From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Earnie Boyd To: Dave Finnegan , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: CD Command and dirs with spaces Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 06:00:00 -0000 Message-id: <19990308140139.29392.rocketmail@send102.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00225.html ---Dave Finnegan wrote: > > I'm running B20 on NT w/ SP3 and find that the 'cd' command under > Bash will not recognize directories with a space character in them. > In particular c:\Program Files. > > I've tried escaping the space char, double escaping it, quoting the > dir, quoting and escaping, all to no avail. > > Is this a bug? Is there a workaround? It does mention in the FAQ something about problems with directories and files with spaces in them; however, when I do: cd Program\ Files OR I do: cd "Program Files" I don't have any problem with going to the directory. BTW, I'm using NT4SP3 and I'm using the 1998-12-3 build of the cygwin1.dll. == - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd@yahoo.com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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: Earnie Boyd To: Dave Finnegan , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: CD Command and dirs with spaces Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19990308140139.29392.rocketmail@send102.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00225.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.mmG0wdvBIIb2lKm11KsVj4RjfXHw91WWKzcoKHw34qA@z> ---Dave Finnegan wrote: > > I'm running B20 on NT w/ SP3 and find that the 'cd' command under > Bash will not recognize directories with a space character in them. > In particular c:\Program Files. > > I've tried escaping the space char, double escaping it, quoting the > dir, quoting and escaping, all to no avail. > > Is this a bug? Is there a workaround? It does mention in the FAQ something about problems with directories and files with spaces in them; however, when I do: cd Program\ Files OR I do: cd "Program Files" I don't have any problem with going to the directory. BTW, I'm using NT4SP3 and I'm using the 1998-12-3 build of the cygwin1.dll. == - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd@yahoo.com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com