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 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:47:40 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "which" command does not expand "~" in path (base-files update needed) Message-ID: <20040928194740.GT26145@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040928194018.GR26145@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 02:43:38PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: >On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> Of course there is a simple solution: lose the quotes. AFAICT, they >> aren't needed. > >IMHO, they are. Windows programs often put directories containing spaces >in the system path. ex: > >/cygdrive/c/Program Files/ATI Technologies/ATI Control Panel Try the above with a PATH that contains spaces. Spaces are preserved. cgf -- 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/