X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: Error with changing directory - No such file or directory Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:58:33 -0500 Lines: 39 Message-ID: <46118A99.5060101@users.sourceforge.net> References: <46118691.6010408@benwylie.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ben@benwylie.co.uk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <46118691.6010408@benwylie.co.uk> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Ben Wylie wrote: > I have a batch file which runs bash and calls a bash script. > > My batch file reads: > cd F:\cygwin\bin > bash --login -i deletescript.sh F:/Progra~1/NAVIEG/queues/ > > The bash script is: > > #!/bin/bash > cd $1 > F:/cygwin/bin/find . -type f -exec awk '(/various/ || /search/ || > /keywords/) {print FILENAME}' {} \; | xargs rm > > When I run the batch file I get: > > F:\>cd F:\cygwin\bin > > F:\cygwin\bin>bash --login -i deletescript.sh F:/Progra~1/NAVIEG/queues/ > : No such file or directoryine 2: cd: F:/Progra~1/NAVIEG/queues/ > > It doesn't seem to like the "cd F:/Progra~1/NAVIEG/queues/" > > However if I load cygwin and type the commands directly, it all works fine. > > Administrator@server ~ > $ cd F:/Progra~1/NAVIEG/queues/ > > [snip] Hmm, it seems you are not using the version of Cygwin that smacks you over the head with a wet tuna for doing such a thing (is that a feature in the Vista-only 1.7.0?). Try using POSIX paths instead of DOS-style paths, and see if that fixes it. -- Matthew Vs lbh pna ernq guvf jvgubhg fbsgjner, lbh ner n FREVBHF areq! -- Nqncgrq sebz Znggurj Jva (ivz-qri znvyvat yvfg) -- 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/