> Whoa - it seldom makes sense to use -i and -c simultaneously - what good
What i'm actually trying to do is have a right-click menu in windows so that when i right click on a file i can choose head from the context menu, and it will send the top 10 lines of the file to vim. I have gvim (windows version) aliased in my .bashrc so that's why i'm using the -i switch. What i have done is created the following registry key: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Head\Command] with the (default) value set to: C:\CYGWIN\bin\bash -i -c "head $(cygpath -a '%1') | vim -R -" This works perfectly for local files, but does not work at all for network shares via UNCs due to the problem stated earlier. > bash -c "cygpath -a '"'\\uncpath\mydrive$'\' This works! but i can't figure out how to make it work for this scenario bash -i -c "head $(cygpath -a "'\\gandy1\rjapps$\Subsidiarypayroll\Web.config'"')" Maybe i have the quotes messed up, or maybe i'm going about doing this all wrong. > By the way, none of this tutorial on shell quoting is cygwin specific. Thanks again for the help. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/