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Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:23:42 -0500
To:	"Jonathan Gift" <j DOT gift AT wanadoo DOT fr>, "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Help changing dir with spaces...
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At 12:56 PM 2/27/2002, Jonathan Gift wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm very familiar with Linux and new to Cywin, but one of my first
>priorities is to mobe around the Bash shell. The only really pressing matter
>is how to move to the folders under WXP: C:\Documents and settings
>
>I can move to C:\Work or C:\tmp but anything with spaces it balks at. Since
>I can't change XP's default, is there a way to get Bash to accept the space?


I'm not sure I agree with your supposition that there isn't a way to change
XP's defaults here but that's irrelevant.  You need to escape the spaces to
make it work for bash.  Use '\' before the space or quote the whole path 
like you'd have to do using cmd.exe.



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