From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paul Bailey" To: Subject: Windows/Cygwin directory name stuff Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:02:00 -0000 Message-id: <000201bf47e7$1dcdb060$c8e898cb@warlord> X-SW-Source: 1999-12/msg00308.html Hi. On my Win98 machine, I have a sub-dir called "Installer Programs". (I also have other directory names, and file names, with spaces in them.) I installed Cygwin, which went OK. I was copying and moving files, and cd'ing throughout the filesystem. No problems. That is, until this: cd Installer Programs It wouldn't let me. I tried cd InstallerPrograms cd Installer_Programs cd Installer-Programs Nothing doing. Eventually I got there through: cd Installer* Fortunately I only have the one directory starting with the word "Installer". I searched throught the Web for some kind of information on spaces in Unix filenames. What little turned up was succinct one-liners, to the tune of "Don't use white space in filenames." Good advice for a Unix-only box, but I *already* have the directories and files named as they are! Is there some mechanism to navigate in bash through a filesystem where directories have spaces in their names? (I mean, I know Unix sees separate words after a command as an argument list, but that doesn't apply in the case of "cd" since I don't think you can cd into two separate directories simultaneously, in the same shell, at the same time.) Regards, Paul Bailey. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paul Bailey" To: Subject: Windows/Cygwin directory name stuff Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 13:28:00 -0000 Message-ID: <000201bf47e7$1dcdb060$c8e898cb@warlord> X-SW-Source: 1999-12n/msg00308.html Message-ID: <19991231132800.hxOLjtkfxtq4D2wdzvkHj_tc0tqzIAovs1BvevPKIHM@z> Hi. On my Win98 machine, I have a sub-dir called "Installer Programs". (I also have other directory names, and file names, with spaces in them.) I installed Cygwin, which went OK. I was copying and moving files, and cd'ing throughout the filesystem. No problems. That is, until this: cd Installer Programs It wouldn't let me. I tried cd InstallerPrograms cd Installer_Programs cd Installer-Programs Nothing doing. Eventually I got there through: cd Installer* Fortunately I only have the one directory starting with the word "Installer". I searched throught the Web for some kind of information on spaces in Unix filenames. What little turned up was succinct one-liners, to the tune of "Don't use white space in filenames." Good advice for a Unix-only box, but I *already* have the directories and files named as they are! Is there some mechanism to navigate in bash through a filesystem where directories have spaces in their names? (I mean, I know Unix sees separate words after a command as an argument list, but that doesn't apply in the case of "cd" since I don't think you can cd into two separate directories simultaneously, in the same shell, at the same time.) Regards, Paul Bailey. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com