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Re: cd to the path including space.


On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:57:48PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 04:46:26PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>> >> findtexmf psfonts_t1.map
>> >
>> >cd "$(cygpath -u "$(findtexmf psfonts_t1.map)")"
>> 
>> cd  "$(cygpath -u '$(findtexmf psfonts_t1.map)')"
>> 
>> will probably work a little better.  As Eric knows, you can't nest quotes
>> that way.
>
>Huh?  My example works just fine; it's yours that is broken (since '' 
>surpresses the innermost $() command substitution):

I stand corrected.  I should have tried this before sending it.

cgf

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