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Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required


zzapper wrote:
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:26:50 -0700, wrote:


zzapper wrote:


Sometimes it can be hard, especially when you are dealing with both
Cygwin and non-Cygwin programs, because the quoting rules differ.  But
it is always possible, and I can't believe that there exists a situation
where you are actually forced to use the short filename.  If you have
one, post it.

Brian


See script below sja.exe is actually in program files, my kludge below was to use a mount (rather
than the short name)

(sja.exe is SQLYOG Job Agent)

dirbackup="c:/backup/dosh/"


eval filedate=$(date.exe '+%d%b%y')


ls -l c:/backup/dosh/doshautoexport.sql

sjaprog="/sqlyog/sja.exe"
sjascript="c:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/sql/dosh-batch.xml"
sjarun="$sjaprog $sjascript";
$sjarun



Considering all this is doing is launching a statically located executable with a statically located script (xml) file, this seems overly complex..
Surely you could just do /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/sqlyog/sja.exe c:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/sql/dosh-batch.xml ?
One question.. When you were trying with spaces.. Did you try escaping the \ ? (as in Program\\ Files)
I've found this to be necessary at times, though I can't remember an instance at the moment.
Does the command run from the console if you start it using the standard path?


Chris

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