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 From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <_garbage_collector_@telia.com> To: Subject: RE: "which" command does not expand "~" in path (base-files update needed) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:42:55 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes you wrote: > 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. > > Ugh..., you're right. I'm sure I've been bitten by something very > similar to this before though (scratches head)? Spaces in arguments (e.g. filenames) always bites, eventually. /giggle/ There is no escape ;-) /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems --72--> ** mailing list preference; please keep replies on list ** -- printf("LocalTime: UTC+%02d\n",(DST)? 2:1); -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- 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/