On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> If you put an extra set of quotation marks around the argument, won't
> they effectively cancel the quotation marks added by system()?
>

...Remarkable. It really seems to work.

I found this:

http://sunriseprogrammer.blogspot.com/2007/06/cmdexe-and-c-run-time-library-argument.html

I'm genuinely impressed. And I always thought bash quoting rules were
broken. They
are of a diamondlike quality and consistency, once one has taken a
look into this.

You're the man, Matthew. Thank you.

And many thanks to Lars, Thomas, John, Ivan and Tobia for your quick help.


cheers,
felix


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