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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: zzapper Subject: Re: Spaces in Paths Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:00:31 +0100 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <20050328174258 DOT GA31328 AT gw DOT jsoft DOT lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 241.119-84-212.ippool.ndo.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.652 X-IsSubscribed: yes On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:42:58 -0500, wrote: > >Have you tried the following: > > mysqldump="/cygdrive/c/program files/mysql/MySQL Server 4.1/bin/mysqldump.exe" > "$mysqldump" $params > >Without the double-quotes around the actual call, the variable gets >split at spaces such that only the part up to the first space is treated >as the command (/cygdrive/c/program\) and the rest as parameters >Cheers, >Sebastien That worked thanx -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/