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From:	"Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To:	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Bash puzzle: Spaces, environment variables and tab completion
Date:	Wed, 4 Dec 2002 01:05:25 -0600
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[snip $PF is a path with spaces]

> So, I ask the list:
>         Can you define $PF so that cd $PF;
>         ls $PF/Games; and ls $PF/G<tab> all work???

Yep: use single-quotes ('), not double (").  And ask not why; there are none
alive who understand the seemingly random shell quoting rules.

Note also that this doesn't do what one needs it to in all circumstances (FOR
NAME in $LIST_OF_PATHS_WITH_SPACES... comes to mind); in such cases you must
resort to the very useful "cygpath" utility (q.v.).

--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot.


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