Thanks for your reply, I hadn't known that msys did translation of parameters with /. Doubling these up does make the commands work, but doesn’t explain why they used to work and now don't :( Alex Dickson, IESD, Mentor Graphics, Newbury, UK. phone:+44 1635 811429, fax:+44 1635 810102 mailto:alex_dickson@xxxxxxxxxx, http://www.mentor.com -----Original Message----- From: Robin Rosenberg [mailto:robin.rosenberg.lists@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 18 August 2014 15:44 To: Dickson, Alex Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Cannot run cmd command lines from GIT bash ----- Ursprungligt meddelande ----- > Från: "Alex Dickson" <alex_dickson@xxxxxxxxxx> > Till: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Skickat: måndag, 18 aug 2014 13:07:46 > Ämne: Cannot run cmd command lines from GIT bash > > HI, > I have just installed GIT from Git-1.9.4-preview20140815.exe having > previously been using Git-1.9.2-preview20140411.exe I now > find that some scripts I have been using for some time are no longer working > correctly. > > It seems that now I cannot pass parameters through to a DOS command e.g. > net user <username> /DOMAIN > > used to return full information about the user, now it just returns username > not found, which is the behaviour > if it is invoked without the /DOMAIN switch. I have seen similar with other > commands, an even simpler example would be > cmd /c dir > > This should run the DOS dir command, but all it does is invoke cmd.exe > interactively msys translates anything that looks like a unix path. try doubling all initial slashes, i.e. cmd //c dir You might have better luck with Windows specifie questions in one of the msysgit forums than here. -- robin ��.n��������+%������w��{.n��������n�r������&��z�ޗ�zf���h���~����������_��+v���)ߣ�