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; q=dns; s=default; b=BgLUy+ mme+JWuydBGgD4qeVKP/jquJcsbO7I9Q/c1V9Fe2wFsq8ZaDFRiamRUheu+LMDyH bxnJCkv0678/zZspcZRi+T8gWSf/OH9fX2YWUV79N5FdcLwkMkOU0jN5J7aHsnIm HDi0KCsxVfbqfaPGK2J18HubGNoULq5rl0zf4= 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; s=default; bh=t0QyFicSDYD2 8xUPgEZou0ScRAA=; b=iNTUmcyxV8rcYhuWGFeAMUT30sjkbMvJ9sHwSzIFZTA6 d/pltVn63+AgjD572NtFpftSS9lwrU6tCKdWSF35xDxD3JZlPynqOQpiqSEaWVIr DVUWrZk+AvuNFiF5HJ2o2Yx8hKowadpdl3PgHxvOt7GjwZrI/T7/ZhTvUR0Y/p4= 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=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Message-ID: <530B5FEF.4080604@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 08:06:23 -0700 From: Eric Blake 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> <530A78F0 DOT 2080302 AT tiscali DOT co DOT uk> In-Reply-To: <530A78F0.2080302@tiscali.co.uk> OpenPGP: url=http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mdT6AuO416meTsEtp7wXCMqSMHAgTo5fa" X-IsSubscribed: yes --mdT6AuO416meTsEtp7wXCMqSMHAgTo5fa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 02/23/2014 03:40 PM, David Stacey wrote: > 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? >=20 > Either surround the whole path in quotes, or use a backslash character > '\' before each space: >=20 > cd "/c/my directory name" > cd /c/my\ directory\ name Or use zsh instead of bash (zsh auto-tries concatenating multi-argument names into a single-argument directory containing spaces), or write a bash function for cd that tries 'command cd "$*"' when $# > 1. --=20 Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --mdT6AuO416meTsEtp7wXCMqSMHAgTo5fa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJTC1/vAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqR0AH/iIqb3Ijc/GreMDCHQZCKJei B1503J3I6H1ZGMqhHd1jEgnwN267/L2oax1T6YcDPiNwxDNi1km27YhhcdI72SLE uV/hGyLmGL17zRQ6Nhus1ojqffhR7jwFZOfavfG2bivEb+QFFA/OU9P1Rjem3VJu m0MYIc5CnLSB1X3gJjFe1/Nyoeg2nbwyjFT/64UPLb+ssaIXQS1AZpMKLT1UxQLT WQvXCqvZ1MmDGaH0noXNCM4ZeSjluZi1fOALq3+pcoZWG7KquYfJ2cr3pcNfrxP1 jRTevniX7wpfrjf+Rsx68nwt2UoydV17vXRpKgPzs8OaBC2eAnPj046RVuq6Ac4= =d+bD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mdT6AuO416meTsEtp7wXCMqSMHAgTo5fa--