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David Bear wrote:
> I would like to have used something like
> 
> cd $USERPROFILE
> 
> in a bash script but since windows insists on putting spaces in names, this
> seems impossible.
> 
> I did find a usecase where the spaces in c:\Documents and Settings\username
> were tripple quoted. However, this did not work for me. Bash still wanted
> to split on the space.
> 
> Is there any cool utility that could be used like
> cleanpath=pathcleaner($USERPROFILE)
> cd $cleanpath
> 
> I know this is a consistent issue with cygwin. There really needs to be a
> good solution.

$ cat cup
#!/bin/bash
cd "$USERPROFILE"
pwd

$ ./cup
/Documents and Settings/me

What's the problem again?



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