Sunil Ravipati wrote > I am a newbie. I installed cygwin on winXP. In the bash shell, > I want to access Program Files by cd Program Files but I get > is cd Program\ Files/ . > > How do i get rid off the slashes for the dir names with spaces. Don't get rid of them.
The slash on the end of Files/ is harmless. cd will ignore it. I find it useful*. With it, I do not need to type the slash when cd'ing into a subdirectory of Program Files/. But if you must get rid of it, the "mark-directories" directive of readline or bash is probably what you want. See man bash or man readline. The back slash on the end of Program\ is essential. The backslash escapes the space so bash thinks that Program Files is a single argument. If you get rid of it, you must put either single or double quotes around the argument: "Program Files" or 'Program Files'. (If you are familiar with file/directory completion in cmd.exe, it puts double quotes to accomplish the same thing.) (*I find cmd.exe's lack of adding a trailing backslash a major annoyance.) - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
