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 From: zzapper Subject: Re: Spaces in Paths Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:45:07 +0100 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <42483204.9050009@buddydog.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 241.119-84-212.ippool.ndo.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.652 X-IsSubscribed: yes On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:34:12 -0500, wrote: >zzapper wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Mysql has now moved under c:/program files/ >> >> My backup bash script will run correctly if I use the follwing syntax >> >> /cygdrive/c/program\ files/mysql/MySQL\ Server\ 4.1/bin/mysqldump.exe $params >> >> However it doesn't work if I try to load the above into a variable >> >> eg >> mysqldump='/cygdrive/c/program\ files/mysql/MySQL\ Server\ 4.1/bin/mysqldump.exe' >> >> I get "/cygdrive/c/program\: No such file or directory..." >> >> Is this just hard luck? > >Nope, just the way the quoting rules work. You've already quoted the spaces by >using the ' character around it. Either remove the \s or remove the 's. Jonathon, I believe I've tried all combinations! with single, double quotes, with and w/o backslashes -- 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/