Thanks for your help. This works.
But is there a way to make the semicolon seperated list work as using multiple -I options will require considerable amount of changes in our code base.
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sorry, i don't know. i've always used multiple -I switches.
i didn't know that it used to work with ; as a seperator before. also,
i'm on linux, so i can't test what's happening on windows.
trying this out on linux lets the shell think the statement
finishes after the ;