X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_RG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Subject: Re: argv @-expansion with pathname containing spaces Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 From: Denis Excoffier In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:34:08 +0100 Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: References: <20121219162048.GA4564@qp9482> <20121220115536.GA300@qp9482> To: Earnie Boyd 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id qBKLYuqd015471 On 2012-12-20, 18:49, Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Denis Excoffier wrote: >> However i don't see how to >> derive the 8.3 form from my original filename, using DOS only. > > The /X argument to cmd.exe's dir command will give you the 8.3 name if > it exists. Note that your system can be configured to not produce the > 8.3 form. I tried 'dir /X %pathname%', or 'dir /X /B %pathname%' (and other combinations), i can produce "some" 8.3 strings, bug was unable to produce the replacement of the full path (with 8.3 strings replaced everywhere). And setting the result in another variable seems another challenge… On the other hand, i have discovered something funny to calculate the directory where a bat file is installed: pushd %0\.. set dirname=%cd% popd This seems to work in all situations (spaces in filenames, bat file called through absolute path or relative path, even the simple foo.bat works…). It also removes the annoying quotes that are set around %0. It's a good trick, did anybody know this? Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple