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From: "John Vincent" <jpv50 AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin and long filenames with spaces
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 16:22:52 +0000
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>From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: Re: cygwin and long filenames with spaces
>Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:09:14 -0400
>
>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 <chrisgame AT bigfoot DOT com> 
>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"

I find that it works for me, e.g.

ls -l /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files

/John Vincent
>
>cgf
>
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