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Re: bash & filenames with spaces
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: Will Parsons <wbparsons at pcnet dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 19:31:03 -0500
- Subject: Re: bash & filenames with spaces
At 07:15 PM 4/1/2002, Will Parsons wrote:
>Bash won't allow me to cd to a directory with a space in it. The FAQ
>implies that all that is necessary is to escape the space, but whether
>I type (e.g.):
>
>cd /c/Program\ Files
>
>or
>
>cd '/c/Program Files'
>
>I get a message:
>
>cd: Program: No such file or directory
>
>Am I missing something obvious here?
You're missing something but it's not obvious what it is. Try a few
variations on this, seeing if you can eliminate things like the mount
table and so on. Perhaps you want to run strace on bash to see if you can
see where it has trouble. Looking at the output of cygcheck -s -r -v might
help too.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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