Re: Passing quoted strings to bat files?

[Earnie Boyd]

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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