Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/08/09/08:56:26
Chris,
It sounds like you have an alias or shell procedure standing in for the
built-in "cd" command.
What output does this command produce:
type -a cd
If it's not the built-in (i.e., the preceding command produces something
other than just "cd is a shell builtin"), then make sure that alias or
procedure is defined in such a way to tolerate spaces and meta-characters
in its argument.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 01:59 2002-08-09, Chris Game wrote:
>In an earlier post, Christopher Faylor said...
>
> > You're doing it from bash. I assumed that the person was having
> > problems from the command shell since they said "MS-Windows". But,
> > on reflection, there is no guarantee that's the case here. Not enough
> > info.
>
>I think I said 'bash' in the OP.
>
> > When there is a UNIX shell involved the quoting rules follow whatever
> > the UNIX shell uses (as you know). When there is no UNIX shell involved
> > then cygwin itself tries to do something halfway intelligent with the
> > arguments.
> >
> > Anyway, with luck, one of our responses should have answered the
> > question.
>
>Ha! (Sorry!)
>Well, 'ls "/cygdrive/c/Program Files" ' works but 'cd
>"/cygdrive/c/Program Files" ' doesn't! The message comes back:
>bash: cd: /cygdrive/c/Program: No such file or directory
>
>
>C.
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