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Subject:  Re: stupid spaces in environment vars
Date:  Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:35:50 -0500
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> BAD:
> alias cdp=cd\ "$USERPROFILE"
> +alias 'cdp=cd C:\Documents and Settings\me'
> 
> alias cdp="cd $USERPROFILE"
> +alias 'cdp=cd C:\Documents and Settings\me'
> 
> GOOD:
> alias cdp="cd \"$USERPROFILE\""
> + alias 'cdp=cd "C:\Documents and Settings\me"'
> 
> alias cdp='cd "$USERPROFILE"'
> + alias 'cdp=cd "$USERPROFILE"'

To avoid one layer of quoting, how about

function cdp () { cd "$USERPROFILE"; }


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