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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:25:49 -0500
From: Chad J McQuinn <huskerchad AT insightbb DOT com>
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To: fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net
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Subject: Re: Moving to the Desktop
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fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net wrote:

>What I'm actually after is something like
>
>   ~> cd `cygpath -D`
>
I think it will work with

cd "`cygpath -D`"

That's backticks inside double quotes. Windows makes it easier since (I 
think) quotes are not allowed in filenames. Beyond that, I think a quick 
and dirty procedure is to backslash anything that isn't alphanumeric; if 
it's special, it gets escaped, and if it's not special, then backslash 
doesn't hurt anything.

-Chad

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