X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:26:47 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: whitespace in variables (tsch) Message-ID: <20080211202647.GA28164@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Feb 11 11:59, Christopher Stack wrote: > first time cygwin user and im running into a problem when setting > location variables on a pc. since the pc uses whitespace (like > c:/Program Files), setting a variable as a direction to this location > seems impossible. how do you get tsch to parse the variable properly? > i've been searching google for the past two days and can't find a > solution. it would seem other should have run into this previously, > no? > > and yes, please i've already heard all the arguments against > programming in csh and if i knew bash i'd use it. thanks in advance > for not being *that* person. The secret buzzword is "quoting". In every shell. On every OS. This is not Cygwin specific. I typed the below in a tcsh on Linux. tcsh$ cd /tmp tcsh$ mkdir foo\ bar tcsh$ setenv DIR "foo bar" tcsh$ cd $DIR cd: Too many arguments. tcsh$ cd "$DIR" tcsh$ pwd /tmp/foo bar Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/