From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: Dave Finnegan <dave@syncinc.com>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: CD Command and dirs with spaces
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990308140139.29392.rocketmail@send102.yahoomail.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990331194500.mmG0wdvBIIb2lKm11KsVj4RjfXHw91WWKzcoKHw34qA@z> (raw)
---Dave Finnegan <dave@syncinc.com> 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.
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next reply other threads:[~1999-03-31 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-08 6:00 Earnie Boyd [this message]
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Earnie Boyd
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1999-03-08 6:02 N8TM
1999-03-31 19:45 ` N8TM
1999-03-08 5:18 Dave Finnegan
1999-03-08 8:25 ` Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Dave Finnegan
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