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Subject: Re: cygpath and spaces in filenames when reading from a file
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On Dec 29 17:11, Jon Beniston wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> cygpath can read a list of paths to convert from a file, when started with
> -file. However, how do you specify paths with spaces in them in this mode?
> It seems quoting the path or using \ doesn't seem to work. E.g:

No, it doesn't.  Space is used as the field separator in the file.  I
assume we need an extension like allowing to specify another separator.
Another one for next year...


Corinna

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