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: Andrew Schulman Subject: Re: Spaces in Paths Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:59:16 -0500 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <42483204.9050009@buddydog.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pcp04399769pcs.nrockv01.md.comcast.net User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 X-Archive: encrypt X-IsSubscribed: yes > >> 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 You should find and study a good reference on shell quoting. I first learned about it from chapter 9 of Unix Power Tools, but I'm sure the bash manual also describes it well. Unfortunately, in general it can be quite a PITA to keep track of file names with spaces in them, especially when you start working with lists of file names. But with practice it gets easier. Good luck, Andrew. -- 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/