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=gwqUWYIe1WaeAAcVgUJLEeSCKKM7QSPOEFalqWZjhMn
	M9WJy8LLSpjvhLyemVTjIOYzCsoLsQsa6jeOKy2Opil/p7DzNRaOa/o5sCvK9/sl
	aPVaotG7PlvkiKO3D90uzkEvBtJJDTCzh0/iOi4pQb9bIWEUMFvpkN+f9NWYH05w
	=
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=r1nAtN0iqGthPfwjsBfAmRyt+FQ=; b=tUkxUIjVRP/KheIq/
	/+Bgf8httBdQoyFhomsST/4QBI3Ykg+bg6Qt87WLq/X2cmduF25oevqBbCNBrXQa
	LACYrRZMGj79TWZuZZvK2l6zpE2M3SHReiVyV7kr/K4vFtBsrbQuLEvVdGJPntCp
	f9+jDx2LGdW/mMdhzSimf+vpfU=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2
X-HELO: mout.gmx.net
Message-ID: <530B606D.9010304@mail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:08:29 -0500
From: Todd Poole <tpoole AT mail DOT com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; 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> <530B5FEF DOT 4080604 AT redhat DOT com>
In-Reply-To: <530B5FEF.4080604@redhat.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-IsSubscribed: yes

Thanks to all.
I was able to get it to work with "/c/my directory name"


Todd Poole

On 2/24/2014 10:06 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> 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
>
> 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.
>

--
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