Application Options

[lawson_whitney at juno.com]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Loren Nozot wrote:

> I am trying to execute a program under rh 7.2 with an application switch
> '/'.  Though the documentation states this is possible I have been
> unable to execute with success.
>
> I have tried many escape variations for the slash but that has not
> worked either.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks!
> Loren
>
/ isn't special to the shell, so protecting it from wine with -- before
should be enough -- unless it has also shell metacharacters after the /.
/* for instance would expand to a list of all the top level directories
in the root filesystem, FI, probably not what the app wants to see.
You can see what the shell will do with a command line with "echo".
If it does something you don't want it to do, quote it:

wine blah.exe -- '/*'

Lawson
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