X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43AD6259.5080205@byu.net> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 07:59:37 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Plunket CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: chere problem with directories with single quote marks References: <193897177.20051223224814@fancy.org> In-Reply-To: <193897177.20051223224814@fancy.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Tom Plunket on 12/23/2005 11:48 PM: > > SHELL_CMD="-l -c \\\"cd '%L'; exec $SHELL_EXE\\\"" > > As you can see, this is clearly "wrong" for folders with a > single-quote mark in them. > > My local fix was just to edit the registry and change '%L' to "%L". > Obviously this affects the handling of this feature with folders that > have a double-quote mark in them, but as I only use single quotes > (e.g. "Debbie's Truck" or "Craig's List"), it Works For Me. ;) Window's allows ' but not " in filenames. However, Windows also allows $ in filenames, so switching to double quotes would trade the problems with ' to problems with $. And you need quoting, or spacing would be corrupted. Off the top of my head, I can only think of one way that might preserve ', $, and spaces in the problematic %L when dumped literally into a shell script, but I don't know if Windows SHELL_CMD can handle embedded newlines. In a normal shell window, $ xargs -0 << 'EOF' > a '$b > EOF a '$b the here-doc correctly preserved the input string. So applying that to the above problem, the registry entry MIGHT work (untested by me) if it is written as: SHELL_CMD="-l -c \\\"xargs -0 cd << 'EOF'\n%L\nEOF\nexec $SHELL_EXE\\\"" - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDrWJZ84KuGfSFAYARAgXnAJ4sy/t74TssPSFEow2nQbLnj2QUxACfdv+S z2wvMNYE8l1bpQuc4ON06Es= =CfzD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/