X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <5f68b7c90806270624i7572d6e1i1e2b7a62fb279be9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:24:46 +0200 From: pierluca.masala@gmail.com To: Ben Subject: Re: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows Cc: ubuntu-doc@lists.ubuntu.com, cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <85bc5e0a0806230214v72b2f28aoc6fa700521d4af1f@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <85bc5e0a0806230214v72b2f28aoc6fa700521d4af1f@mail.gmail.com> 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 Try to put a backslash before every space: Documents\ and\ Settings and take care to respect lower and upper cases. Bye On 6/23/08, Ben wrote: > Here , the Ubuntu help says > that if you download Cygwin, you can follow the Linux directions. I'm using > the Cygwin shell and it is not working. I downloaded the file to C. I type: > > cd C:\ > > So far, so good. The (zippied) file ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso is > sitting in C:\. So I type: > > md5sum ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso > > "No such file or directory." > > Ah well. Cygwin does not seem to be a very newbie-friendly application. > "Help cd" offers one a starkly technical little paragraph. Incidentally, how > does one even go to the Desktop directory (which lies at C:\Documents and > Settings\Ben\Desktop for me) with Cygwin? Whenever you put in a space, > Cygwin seems to reject it. > > - Ben > -- 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/