Re: calling dos program from a zsh script

[zzapper <david@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:17:13 +0000,  wrote:

>On Mar 21,  1:32pm, zzapper wrote:
>}
>} sja.exe /somepath/params.xml
>} 
>} This wouldn't work as sja always complained that it couldn't find param.xml
>} 
>} I guess this is because zsh is somehow interpreting the
>} /somepath/params.xml before passing it on.
>
>Actually it's more likely because zsh is NOT interpreting the path, and
>bash (or whatever /bin/sh is) DOES interpret it.
>
>That is, the DOS utility is probably expecting \somepath\params.xml
>but zsh passes it through unchanged with forward slashes instead.

The line

 sja.exe /somepath/params.xml

works when typed from the zsh prompt, but not from inside a little script