Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Chris Game Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Cygwin and long filenames with spaces Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:12:51 +0100 Organization: . Lines: 7 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.240.112 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028812318 21581 62.252.240.112 (8 Aug 2002 13:11:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:11:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.30 How can you pass long filenames which include spaces to cygwin/bash commands like 'ls' under MS-Windows? Neither escaping the spaces, nor enclosing the filename in single or double quotes seems to work. I have to use the old DOS style short filename like /cygdrive/Docume~ 1/... which can be a nuisance. C. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/