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From:	"Charles D. Russell" <worwor AT bellsouth DOT net>
To:	"cygwin cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	quoting windows pathnames
Date:	Mon, 26 May 2003 14:26:41 -0500
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Since switching to Windows XP, I am forced to use pathnames with spaces.  In
.profile, how do you quote a pathname with spaces so that  cd $DIRNAME and
ls $DIRNAME will work?  I can write a $DIRNAME that will work in makefiles
or when invoked from the bash shell as ls "$DIRNAME", but I can't find a way
that lets me omit the quotes when using ls from the shell prompt.


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