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 15:48:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "which" command does not expand "~" in path (base-files update needed) In-Reply-To: <20040928194740.GT26145@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: References: <20040928194018.GR26145@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20040928194740.GT26145@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. They are in this case, but won't be in general. E.g., try PATH=~/bin:$PATH which ls vs. PATH=~/bin:"$PATH" which ls Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/