--- "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote: > David Bear wrote: > > I would like to have used something like > > > > cd $USERPROFILE > > > > in a bash script but since windows insists on > putting spaces in names, this > > seems impossible. > > > > I did find a usecase where the spaces in > c:\Documents and Settings\username > > were tripple quoted. However, this did not work > for me. Bash still wanted > > to split on the space. > > > > Is there any cool utility that could be used like > > cleanpath=pathcleaner($USERPROFILE) > > cd $cleanpath > > > > I know this is a consistent issue with cygwin. > There really needs to be a > > good solution. > > $ cat cup > #!/bin/bash > cd "$USERPROFILE" > pwd > > $ ./cup > /Documents and Settings/me > > What's the problem again?
It's passing quoted items around I think is confusing or when the expansion happens. But, I'm fairly new to shell scripts and still learning. Here are a couple of more examples. E.g BAD: alias cdp=cd\ "$USERPROFILE" +alias 'cdp=cd C:\Documents and Settings\me' alias cdp="cd $USERPROFILE" +alias 'cdp=cd C:\Documents and Settings\me' GOOD: alias cdp="cd \"$USERPROFILE\"" + alias 'cdp=cd "C:\Documents and Settings\me"' alias cdp='cd "$USERPROFILE"' + alias 'cdp=cd "$USERPROFILE"' :-) Frodak ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 -- 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/
