Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Re: cygwin startup time

On Tue, December 21, 2010 8:21 am, Jürgen Krämer wrote:
> cmd.exe does not handle single quotes, so you have to enclose the whole
> argument to awk with double quotes. awk does not seem to accept single
> quotes either (I'm not sure, because I don't normally use awk), so you
> have to put double quotes around test= , too. The problem is now: How
> to put quotes inside quotes? One (the?) solution: Put everything except
> the quotes inside quotes and escape the quotes that need to be there
> for awk. The escape char in cmd.exe is a caret, so you finally get this
> command:
>
> :r !awk "BEGIN { print "^""test="^"" }"

That is nasty. I wouldn't remember what that means a couple
of hours later...

regards,

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