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Passing double quotes to DOS
- From: Richard Gilbert <R dot Gilbert at sheffield dot ac dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:48:16 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
- Subject: Passing double quotes to DOS
- Organization: University of Sheffield
I need to be able to pass double quotes to a program running under NT4/DOS
but I cannot find a way of doing so. To illustrate the problem I have
written a trivial BAT file called e.bat which contains the single line
echo %1
If I run it from a DOS shell with a double quoted parameter it echoes the
parameter with the double quotes intact, e.g.
C:>e.bat "abc"
C:>echo "abc" (<-- the BAT file echoes the command)
"abc"
However, if I run this program from a bash shell (or tcsh) in the cygwin
environment, I cannot find a way of passing the double quotes to the
program...
$ e.bat "abc"
C:>echo abc
abc
(as expected)
$ e.bat "\"abc\""
C:>echo "\"abc\""
echo "\"abc\""
$ e.bat '"abc"'
C:>echo "\"abc\""
echo "\"abc\""
Note that both the last two result in the same command being passed to
the BAT file.
Can anybody tell me how to do it?
TYIA.
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Richard Gilbert
Corporate Information and Computing Services
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
Phone: +44 114 222 3028 Fax: +44 114 222 3040
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