Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/12/16/12:02:59
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.
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