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 X-Authentication-Warning: smtp3.cern.ch: Host pb-d-128-141-36-121.cern.ch [128.141.36.121] claimed to be lxcms60.cern.ch Message-ID: <3DEF2AEC.30709@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:31:08 +0100 From: "Lassi A. Tuura" Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, USA User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Shaw Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bash puzzle: Spaces, environment variables and tab completion References: <20021205060104.39630.qmail@web13602.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You might want to try with zsh, it's more flexible and convenient to use than bash. I haven't used it on Windows, but here's a linux example: $ mkdir -p '/tmp/foo/a bar' $ F='/tmp/foo/a bar' $ ls -ld $F drwxr-xr-x 2 lat zh 4096 Dec 5 11:26 /tmp/foo/a bar $ touch $F/xyz $ ls -laF $F total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 lat zh 4096 Dec 5 11:26 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 lat zh 4096 Dec 5 11:26 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 lat zh 0 Dec 5 11:26 xyz It has gadzillion options to set, so how it works might be function of what I have set as my zsh environment, but it should be possible. //lat -- Real programmers disdain structured programming. Structured programming is for compulsive, prematurely toilet-trained neurotics who wear neckties and carefully line up sharpened pencils on an otherwise uncluttered desk. -- 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/