Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020227132113.022bedc8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:23:42 -0500 To: "Jonathan Gift" , "cygwin" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Help changing dir with spaces... In-Reply-To: <01de01c1bfb8$16601d90$c31a80d9@palatine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 12:56 PM 2/27/2002, Jonathan Gift wrote: >Hi, > >I'm very familiar with Linux and new to Cywin, but one of my first >priorities is to mobe around the Bash shell. The only really pressing matter >is how to move to the folders under WXP: C:\Documents and settings > >I can move to C:\Work or C:\tmp but anything with spaces it balks at. Since >I can't change XP's default, is there a way to get Bash to accept the space? I'm not sure I agree with your supposition that there isn't a way to change XP's defaults here but that's irrelevant. You need to escape the spaces to make it work for bash. Use '\' before the space or quote the whole path like you'd have to do using cmd.exe. Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/