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 Message-ID: <000501c323bc$e0dbf080$aa6bd6d1@dell03> Reply-To: "Charles D. Russell" From: "Charles D. Russell" To: "cygwin cygwin" Subject: quoting windows pathnames Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 14:26:41 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/