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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:38:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jesse Hogan <nosbtr1 AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Spaces in Environment Variables
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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If I set environment variables to paths that have
spaces in them they don't work right with common shell
commands. Does anybody know a work around for this?

For example:

--SHELL--------------------------------------------
$ PF="/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files"
$ export PF
$ cd $PF
: cd: /cygdrive/c/Program\: No such file or directory
$ ls $PF
ls: /cygdrive/c/Program\: No such file or directory
ls: Files: No such file or directory
--SHELL--------------------------------------------


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