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Re: Passing double quotes to DOS
- From: Richard Gilbert <R dot Gilbert at sheffield dot ac dot uk>
- To: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov at syntrex dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:29:47 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
- Subject: Re: 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\""
>
> I dont understand the output of the last example ? Is it really the
> same like the output of the second sample or it's just copy and
> paste mistake ? (DISCLAIMER: My understanding of shell scripts is not
> that deep so if I'm asking something very stupid here, please ignore it)
It really is the same...
> > 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?
>
> Does this help: e.bat \"abc\"
...and the above suggestion has exactly the same effect:
$ e.bat \"abc\"
C:>echo "\"abc\""
echo "\"abc\""
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