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Greetings, All!

I'm using a wrapper script to comfortably start VS Code from file manager.

The last line of it is

cygstart --hide -- "/proc/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft VS Code/bin/code.cmd" "$(cygpath -alw "$_arg")"

It works well up to the point where there are no spaces in the $_arg. But on
the first seen space it break the arguments list into pieces.
I have to double-quote the argument to maintain the consistency, like

cygstart --hide -- "/proc/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft VS Code/bin/code.cmd" "\"$(cygpath -alw "$_arg")\""

but that's a questionable solution at best.

I'm unable to track the origin of such behavior, so I need an advice.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, December 14, 2025 12:07:31

Sorry for my terrible english...


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