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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Bash puzzle: Spaces, environment variables and tab completion
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 01:12:36 -0600
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> Although I appreciate Gary's encouragement, going
> around bash instead of struggling with it, does
> seem the better solution.

Well now, I never said you couldn't cheat a *little* ;-).

>  There were several
> variations on the same theme on this bypass
> solution.  Thanks to Ehud, Michael and Igor.
> Basically either symbolically link or mount a (non
> spaced) file to the problem path.  Then I can
> define an environment variable to that link/mount.
>

Don't forget about cygpath's ability to transfigure spaced pathnames into
spaceless ones:

PF=$(cygpath -u $(cygpath -d '/cygdrive/c/Program Files'))

This will tab-complete $PF/whatever, "cd $PF", "ls $PF/G<tab complete>" just
fine, etc etc.  The only downside is that you end up looking at those ugly (but
spaceless) short, squiggleized names.

How's that for pounding, Randall? ;-)

--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot.


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