David Christensen wrote: > I am having trouble using pipelines with paths containing spaces:
This is not technically a Cygwin-specific issue, so I'm going to try to keep this short. > 2009-08-31 01:16:50 administra...@p43400e ~ > $ ls -d /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/ | xargs ls > ls: cannot access /cygdrive/c/Documents: No such file or directory > ls: cannot access and: No such file or directory > ls: cannot access Settings/: No such file or directory Please refer to the manpage for xargs by running the following: man xargs That should explain why the path is being split. > 2009-08-31 01:16:55 administra...@p43400e ~ > $ ls `ls -d /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/` > ls: cannot access /cygdrive/c/Documents: No such file or directory > ls: cannot access and: No such file or directory > ls: cannot access Settings/: No such file or directory This happens because of the way Bash, the shell you're running, splits things into words. See the manpage for bash: man bash Look for the IFS variable's description in the Shell Variables section. The following section of the Bash manual is also good: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Word-Splitting.html#Word-Splitting -Jeremy -- 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
