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RE: Spaces in Paths


At Monday, March 28, 2005 1:01 PM, zzapper wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:42:58 -0500,  wrote:
>> 
>> Have you tried the following:
>> 
>>    mysqldump="/cygdrive/c/program files/mysql/MySQL Server
>> 4.1/bin/mysqldump.exe"    "$mysqldump" $params 
>> 
>> Without the double-quotes around the actual call, the variable gets
>> split at spaces such that only the part up to the first space is
>> treated 
>> as the command (/cygdrive/c/program\) and the rest as parameters
> 
>> Cheers,
>> Sebastien
> That worked thanx

Changing
	program files
to
	progra~1
might also work.  (It does for me on XP with NTFS.)  "progra~1" is the FAT32
short file names corresponding to "Program Files".

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