Re: Passing quoted strings to bat files?

[Angel Tsankov]

I'm using the cmd.exe shell only.
There are no error messages.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Earnie Boyd" <address@hidden>
To: "Angel Tsankov" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: Passing quoted strings to bat files?


> On 12:47:57 pm 2005-07-01 "Angel Tsankov" <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>> I have a list of citations (e.g. citations = "This is citation 1"
>> "This is citation 2" "This is citation 3") and I want to pass this
>> variable as the first argument to a batch file. I've already tried
>> this:
>>
>> var := $(shell do_smth_with_citations.bat $(citations))     # does
>> not work as desired
>> var := $(shell do_smth_with_citations.bat "$(citations)")   # does
>> not work as desired, either
>>
>> Other suggestions are welcome.
>
> Are you using MSYS or Cygwin or is there some other sh.exe in your PATH?
>
> What are the error messages?
>
> Earnie
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