Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Chris Game Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: cygwin and long filenames with spaces Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:59:41 +0100 Organization: . Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <20020808150914.GE6833@redhat.com> <20020808153224.GC8388@redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.196.154 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028883520 26107 62.252.196.154 (9 Aug 2002 08:58:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 08:58:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.30 In an earlier post, Christopher Faylor said... > You're doing it from bash. I assumed that the person was having > problems from the command shell since they said "MS-Windows". But, > on reflection, there is no guarantee that's the case here. Not enough > info. I think I said 'bash' in the OP. > When there is a UNIX shell involved the quoting rules follow whatever > the UNIX shell uses (as you know). When there is no UNIX shell involved > then cygwin itself tries to do something halfway intelligent with the > arguments. > > Anyway, with luck, one of our responses should have answered the > question. Ha! (Sorry!) Well, 'ls "/cygdrive/c/Program Files" ' works but 'cd "/cygdrive/c/Program Files" ' doesn't! The message comes back: bash: cd: /cygdrive/c/Program: No such file or directory C. -- 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/