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Re: Error using cygstart command with option arguments: "cygstart: bad argument"
- From: Peter Farley <pjfarley3 at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:33:21 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Error using cygstart command with option arguments: "cygstart: bad argument"
--- Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net> wrote:
<Snipped>
> The problem that you are running into is that you
> need to tell cygstart that the -c and following
> arguments are meant for the child process, and
> are not arguments to cygstart itself. '--' is a
> standard way of doing this, which indicates to the
> program that all of the following arguments
> should not be interpreted as switches but just
> regular data. So "cygstart -- bash -c ..." ought
> to work.
<Snipped>
Follow-up: Using "cygstart -- bash -c ..." did in
fact solve the "bad argument" error and do exactly
what I needed.
Thanks again for the help.
Peter
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