X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=lp1vwjoQwqVg7qAhCzmCypLo2luWYhFEZzFN2wLOSGw upb4480KJqFlEdDgWcPb+7sWMtOT3+5jgIJrRCrEzHkxFP547GHyNau6nGFRwcbR oS81UX54Jj/xeXNVM8tMS+B5mWOpdv6xKZp9SmlYwC0hj9pRF7odHlTZQRMGI72Q = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=wzpQWug3pPmyHWBR0rp/hILyzm4=; b=duJz43/kJBkUTI6xS gNabpOsvYcA6cpVP5LGxfZZUPL2lNsVfA6kwBlIOdcibo3Ahlwz66fM26plR/65M Iidvno0mzCizK6wHV8DE1xJufZ2AZPUSfTRFDRsVry81rkiKNQw8MCOGET1yaxWk D420KMhZI9xiwZDO0Fd0J7tamo= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_COUK,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: out.ipsmtp2nec.opaltelecom.net X-SMTPAUTH: drstacey AT tiscali DOT co DOT uk X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApMBAOF3ClNPRtPu/2dsb2JhbAANTMFzgweBIYMZAQEBBDhAEQsYCRYPCQMCAQIBRRMIAQGsLaF3F45rFoQiAQOuCA X-IPAS-Result: ApMBAOF3ClNPRtPu/2dsb2JhbAANTMFzgweBIYMZAQEBBDhAEQsYCRYPCQMCAQIBRRMIAQGsLaF3F45rFoQiAQOuCA Message-ID: <530A78F0.2080302@tiscali.co.uk> Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:40:48 +0000 From: David Stacey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Change Directory References: <530A75DA DOT 9040106 AT mail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <530A75DA.9040106@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 23/02/14 22:27, Todd Poole wrote: > Getting confused on something. From bash terminal I can change > directory like so: > > $ cd /c/directoryname > > But if the directory has multi words it does not recognize the directory: > > $ cd /c/my directory name > > Is there a way to get cygwin to recognize multiple names in a directory? Either surround the whole path in quotes, or use a backslash character '\' before each space: cd "/c/my directory name" cd /c/my\ directory\ name Dave. -- 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