X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:18:50 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygpath and spaces in filenames when reading from a file Message-ID: <20091230181849.GA17448@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <000801ca88a9$ec71c510$c5554f30$@com> <20091230120129 DOT GA32652 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091230120129.GA32652@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:01:29PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Dec 29 17:11, Jon Beniston wrote: >> Hi, >> >> cygpath can read a list of paths to convert from a file, when started with >> -file. However, how do you specify paths with spaces in them in this mode? >> It seems quoting the path or using \ doesn't seem to work. E.g: > >No, it doesn't. Space is used as the field separator in the file. I >assume we need an extension like allowing to specify another separator. >Another one for next year... That's an option that I added. I am surprised that it is space delimited since I thought I intended to make it newline delimited. I'll take a look at it. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple