Re: Win 2000 : Open Files With Word & Excel From The Command Line

[Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>]

Steve,

Double damn!

Or maybe... Third time's the charm. Yeah, that's it!

-==-
#!/bin/bash

wwArgs=()

for arg; do
    wwArgs[${#wwArgs[@]}]="$(cygpath -m "$arg")"
done

exec "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/winword.exe" 
"${wwArgs[@]}"
-==-


Randall Schulz


> Steve,
>
> Damn. I forgot the part about converting the argument names from 
> Cygwin / POSIX to Windows.
>
> This is better:
>
> -==-
> #!/bin/bash
>
> wwArgs=()
>
> for arg; do
>     wwArgs${#wwArgs@]}]="$(cygpath -w "$arg")"
> done
>
> exec "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/winword.exe" 
> "${wwArgs[@]}"
> -==-
>
> Note that to use the array syntax you have to use BASH.
>
> This is still somewhat limited, in that it assumes all the arguments 
> to the script are file names. I don't know that WINWORD.EXE accepts 
> anything else, but if it does and you want to use them, this would 
> have to be refined further.
>
> Lastly, I guess there is now some Cygwin-specific aspects to this.
>
> Randall Schulz

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