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 Message-ID: <435CE96A.825A06B@dessent.net> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 07:02:18 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required References: <435C2A4A.C4D58EA5@dessent.net> <435CC565.DB98EB45@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com zzapper wrote: > /usr/local/sbin/jraynersqlzip: line 14: /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/SQLyog\ Enterprise/sja.exe: No > such file or directory > > But a ls is just dandy There's double quoting now. My email wasn't quite correct, use one or the other but not both: foo=/path\ with\ spaces or foo="/path with spaces" and then when you want to use $foo as a single word, use double quotes, as in: "$foo" arg1 arg2 Brian -- 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/