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Re: checkdir: cannot create extraction directory
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: bh77 <ben dot huckel at convergys dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:01:52 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: checkdir: cannot create extraction directory
- References: <4958550.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, bh77 wrote:
> I am trying to unzip a file using the following command from a bash script
> under cygwin and receive the following error - which looks as though it may
> be permissions related. Does anyone have any idea what may be causing it ?
>
> code :
> # if the target directory does not exist, create it.
> if [ ! -d ${TARGET_DIR} ]
> then
> echo making target dir
> mkdir ${TARGET_DIR}
> fi
> unzip -u ${SRC_DIR} "**/*.jar" -d ${TARGET_DIR}
>
> error:
> checkdir: cannot create extraction directory /cygdrive/c/target
> any ideas ?
Yes: use quotes around variable references. The above is what you can get
when your directory names contain spaces.
Igor
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