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Windows/Cygwin directory name stuff


Hi.

On my Win98 machine, I have a sub-dir called "Installer Programs".  (I also
have other directory names, and file names, with spaces in them.)

I installed Cygwin, which went OK.  I was copying and moving files, and
cd'ing throughout the filesystem.  No problems.  That is, until this:

cd Installer Programs

It wouldn't let me.  I tried

cd InstallerPrograms
cd Installer_Programs
cd Installer-Programs

Nothing doing.  Eventually I got there through:

cd Installer*

Fortunately I only have the one directory starting with the word
"Installer".

I searched throught the Web for some kind of information on spaces in Unix
filenames.  What little turned up was succinct one-liners, to the tune of
"Don't use white space in filenames."  Good advice for a Unix-only box, but
I *already* have the directories and files named as they are!

Is there some mechanism to navigate in bash through a filesystem where
directories have spaces in their names?  (I mean, I know Unix sees separate
words after a command as an argument list, but that doesn't apply in the
case of "cd" since I don't think you can cd into two separate directories
simultaneously, in the same shell, at the same time.)



Regards,


Paul Bailey.





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