Bash in Git for Windows: Weirdness when running a command with CMD.exe /C with args

Question

This is more of an annoyance rather than a problem but I would very much like to understand the semantics here.

All I want to do is to run an arbitrary command on a

Answer 1

I noticed git-bash treats the /c argument like a C: drive:

C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe C:/ echo test

As dbenham found double quotes are added. This echos test" for example:

cmd /c\ echo\ test

I needed the same line (script) to work in git-bash as well as Cygwin Bash. The only ways that work are

cmd /c\ echo\ test\&rem\ 

(note that this line needs to end in a space), and

cmd << EOC
echo test
EOC

So escape every space after the /c and add \&rem\  at the end of the line (including the trailing space), or just wrap the command in a here document.

All this probably depends on the version of git-bash and the specific commands. :-(