X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: David Bear Subject: Re: stupid spaces in environment vars Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:56:10 -0700 Lines: 59 Message-ID: <1822775.YxuMtajyO0@teancum> References: <1207595.6YXS76RrHQ@teancum> <45CA8AAF.9050107@cygwin.com> <1851358.f0UO6cioO9@teancum> <45CBF0DD.4AD26775@dessent.net> Reply-To: david.bear@asu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Mail-Copies-To: david.bear@asu.edu User-Agent: KNode/0.9.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Brian Dessent wrote: > David Bear wrote: > >> Okay, the problem is in quoting in shell scripts, I think. >> >> Here's an example: >> #!/usr/bin/bash >> curdir=`pwd` >> echo $curdir >> prodir=`cygpath $USERPROFILE` > > Should be: > > prodir=$(cygpath "$USERPROFILE") > >> echo $prodir >> cd $prodir > > Should be: > > cd "$prodir" > >> cd /cygdrive/c/Documents\\\ and\\\ Settings/$USERNAME > > Should be: > > cd "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/$USERNAME" > >> pwd >> cd $curdir > > Should be: > > cd "$curdir" > > See the pattern? In general whenever you have a variable that might > contain spaces you just need to quote it. Forget the triple-backslash > nonsense. Double quotes are all you need. > > Brian thanks you very much. However, there is still something that doesn't work. Here's a simple script that has problems. #!/bin/sh # the user has write access to src=`cygpath $USERPROFILE` echo $src r='snapshot1.pp.asu.edu' opts=" -av --dry-run -e ssh" rsync $opts "$src/" $USER@$r:~/$HOSTNAME -- -- David Bear College of Public Programs at Arizona State University -- 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/