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To: "Steven Monai" <steve+cygwin AT monai DOT ca>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:38:34 +0100
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From: "Matthias Andree" <matthias DOT andree AT gmx DOT de>
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Am 27.01.2010, 03:09 Uhr, schrieb Steven Monai:
> Hi folks,
>
> Consider this command line transcript:
> --------------------------------------
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 hostname 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin
>
> $ cygcheck -c cygport
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package              Version        Status
> cygport              0.9.80-1       OK
>
> $ pwd
> /home/steve/My Documents/bglibs
>
> $ ls
> bglibs-1.106-1.cygport
>
> $ cygport bglibs-1.106-1.cygport download
> /usr/bin/cygport: line 444: [: /home/steve/My: binary operator expected
> /usr/bin/cygport: line 450: /home/steve/My: No such file or directory
>
> --------------------------------------
> Workaround: Move the working dir to a path not containing spaces.

Or even simpler, cd to the DOS variant of the filename, try for instance:

cd /home/steve/MYDOCU~1/bglibs

(you need to check what the actual DOS path equivalent is on your system)

This has worked quite well for me so far (and I changed my $HOME to not  
contain spaces, but use the DOS name, too).

-- 
Matthias Andree

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