X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:01:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: bh77 cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: checkdir: cannot create extraction directory In-Reply-To: <4958550.post@talk.nabble.com> Message-ID: References: <4958550.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, bh77 wrote: > I am trying to unzip a file using the following command from a bash script > under cygwin and receive the following error - which looks as though it may > be permissions related. Does anyone have any idea what may be causing it ? > > code : > # if the target directory does not exist, create it. > if [ ! -d ${TARGET_DIR} ] > then > echo making target dir > mkdir ${TARGET_DIR} > fi > unzip -u ${SRC_DIR} "**/*.jar" -d ${TARGET_DIR} > > error: > checkdir: cannot create extraction directory /cygdrive/c/target > any ideas ? Yes: use quotes around variable references. The above is what you can get when your directory names contain spaces. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/