X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45CA8AAF.9050107@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:27:59 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061221 Fedora/1.5.0.9-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: stupid spaces in environment vars References: <1207595 DOT 6YXS76RrHQ AT teancum> In-Reply-To: <1207595.6YXS76RrHQ@teancum> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 David Bear wrote: > I would like to have used something like > > cd $USERPROFILE > > in a bash script but since windows insists on putting spaces in names, this > seems impossible. > > I did find a usecase where the spaces in c:\Documents and Settings\username > were tripple quoted. However, this did not work for me. Bash still wanted > to split on the space. > > Is there any cool utility that could be used like > cleanpath=pathcleaner($USERPROFILE) > cd $cleanpath > > I know this is a consistent issue with cygwin. There really needs to be a > good solution. $ cat cup #!/bin/bash cd "$USERPROFILE" pwd $ ./cup /Documents and Settings/me What's the problem again? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/