open and backslashes...

From: Jeff Godfrey (jeff_godfrey_at_pobox.com)
Date: 03/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:03:25 -0600

Hi All,

Under WinXP, given a user supplied program command line, such as:

set cmd {c:\path\to\myprog.exe -F 1 -G 2:2 -Q "a text parm"}

What is the best/safest way to make the above "acceptable" to the open
command, as in:

open "|$cmd"

It seems that I need to convert the (possible) backslashes in the exe path
to forward slashes for open, but I don't want to break anything else in the
supplied command line. Also, I suppose the exe path could contain spaces...

I've managed to kludge my way through the above issue several times in the
past, but am wondering if there is a canonical way of accomplishing this?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Jeff

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