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quoting windows pathnames


Since switching to Windows XP, I am forced to use pathnames with spaces.  In
.profile, how do you quote a pathname with spaces so that  cd $DIRNAME and
ls $DIRNAME will work?  I can write a $DIRNAME that will work in makefiles
or when invoked from the bash shell as ls "$DIRNAME", but I can't find a way
that lets me omit the quotes when using ls from the shell prompt.


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