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Date:	Mon, 24 Oct 2005 07:02:18 -0700
From:	Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required
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zzapper wrote:

> /usr/local/sbin/jraynersqlzip: line 14: /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/SQLyog\ Enterprise/sja.exe: No
> such file or directory
> 
> But a ls is just dandy

There's double quoting now.  My email wasn't quite correct, use one or
the other but not both:

foo=/path\ with\ spaces

or

foo="/path with spaces"

and then when you want to use $foo as a single word, use double quotes,
as in:

"$foo" arg1 arg2

Brian

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