Open MS Office document from UNIX emulator

cgcamal · 01-22-2009, 10:46 PM

Hi everyone,

I´ve been trying to launch an office document from UNIX emulator (UWIN and Cygwin) in similar way
like I´ve done in DOS in order to give continuity to one some process that begins with a unix script.

I sent the following line in UWIN and Cygwin:

Code:

"/C/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/EXCEL.EXE"  #This launches Excel in UWIN but not in Cygwin

But when I,ve tryed to open an Excel document in UWIN with the line:

Code:

"/C/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/EXCEL.EXE" "/C/Documents and Settings/Files/MyFile.xls"

I get an error saying that I have to verify the file.

Somebody knows how to do what I looking for? It´s possible?

Thanks in advance for any suggestion

Best regards

ErV · 01-23-2009, 01:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cgcamal

Hi everyone,

I´ve been trying to launch an office document from UNIX emulator (UWIN and Cygwin) in similar way
like I´ve done in DOS in order to give continuity to one some process that begins with a unix script.

I sent the following line in UWIN and Cygwin:

Code:

"/C/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/EXCEL.EXE"  #This launches Excel in UWIN but not in Cygwin

But when I,ve tryed to open an Excel document in UWIN with the line:

Code:

"/C/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/EXCEL.EXE" "/C/Documents and Settings/Files/MyFile.xls"

I get an error saying that I have to verify the file.

Somebody knows how to do what I looking for? It´s possible?

Thanks in advance for any suggestion

Best regards

Excel will not understand path like this:
"/C/Documents and Settings/Files/MyFile.xls". "/" or "\" normally mean top-level directory of current harddrive, and it doesn't have "C" folder.
Make it into standard:
"C:\Documents and Settings\Files\MyFile.xls" or
"C:/Documents and Settings/Files/MyFile.xls" (slashes instead of backslashes should be fine)

cgcamal · 01-23-2009, 12:41 PM

Hi ErV,

Well, it worked in UWIN with your suggestion, your right.

I´m not sure, but I don´t know why in Cygwin isn´t working to
launch the Excel application. It could be syntax used by the
shell and I on´t know how to fix it.

The error is:

Code:

user@user/cygdrive/c
$ "/C/Program files/Microsoft Office/Office12/EXCEL.EXE"
bash: /C/Program files/Microsoft Office/Office12/EXCEL.EXE: No such file or directory

Thanks for your help.