X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:45:04 -0800 From: "Christopher Stack" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: whitespace in variables (tsch) In-Reply-To: <20080211202647.GA28164@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080211202647.GA28164@calimero.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 thanks much corinna. i knew to try various ways of quoting, but wouldn't have thought of quoting the variable itself when called! you're a life-saver. cheers christopher On Feb 11, 2008 12:26 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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/ > > -- "Space is on the verge of becoming an adventure again, Windows Vista is flopping, and Mario Kart will be out for the Wii soon. I think the future will be okay." - xkcd -- 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/