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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:09:14 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin and long filenames with spaces Message-ID: <20020808150914.GE6833@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 06:38:14AM -0700, Michael A Chase wrote: >On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:12:51 +0100 Chris Game wrote: > >> How can you pass long filenames which include spaces to cygwin/bash >> commands like 'ls' under MS-Windows? Neither escaping the spaces, nor >> enclosing the filename in single or double quotes seems to work. I >> have to use the old DOS style short filename like /cygdrive/Docume~ >> 1/... which can be a nuisance. > >Quoting the entire file specification or escaping the spaces with '\' are >the normal ways that spaces in file or directory names are handled. Can >you send us the exact sequence of commands you are trying that are not >working as you expece? Quoting spaces with \ doesn't work from the command line on cygwin. Quoting the entire specification does, e.g. ls -l "/cygdrive/c/Program Files" cgf -- 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/