> Although I appreciate Gary's encouragement, going > around bash instead of struggling with it, does > seem the better solution.
Well now, I never said you couldn't cheat a *little* ;-). > There were several > variations on the same theme on this bypass > solution. Thanks to Ehud, Michael and Igor. > Basically either symbolically link or mount a (non > spaced) file to the problem path. Then I can > define an environment variable to that link/mount. > Don't forget about cygpath's ability to transfigure spaced pathnames into spaceless ones: PF=$(cygpath -u $(cygpath -d '/cygdrive/c/Program Files')) This will tab-complete $PF/whatever, "cd $PF", "ls $PF/G<tab complete>" just fine, etc etc. The only downside is that you end up looking at those ugly (but spaceless) short, squiggleized names. How's that for pounding, Randall? ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
