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Subject: Re: stupid spaces in environment vars
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David Bear wrote:

> Okay, the problem is in quoting in shell scripts, I think.
> 
> Here's an example:
> #!/usr/bin/bash
> curdir=`pwd`
> echo $curdir
> prodir=`cygpath $USERPROFILE`

Should be:

prodir=$(cygpath "$USERPROFILE")

> echo $prodir
> cd $prodir

Should be:

cd "$prodir"

> cd /cygdrive/c/Documents\\\ and\\\ Settings/$USERNAME

Should be:

cd "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/$USERNAME"

> pwd
> cd $curdir

Should be:

cd "$curdir"

See the pattern?  In general whenever you have a variable that might
contain spaces you just need to quote it.  Forget the triple-backslash
nonsense.  Double quotes are all you need.

Brian

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