cygwin and long filenames with spaces

[Randall R Schulz]

Chris,

It sounds like you have an alias or shell procedure standing in for the 
built-in "cd" command.

What output does this command produce:

         type -a cd

If it's not the built-in (i.e., the preceding command produces something 
other than just "cd is a shell builtin"), then make sure that alias or 
procedure is defined in such a way to tolerate spaces and meta-characters 
in its argument.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 01:59 2002-08-09, Chris Game wrote:
>In an earlier post, Christopher Faylor said...
>
> > You're doing it from bash.  I assumed that the person was having
> > problems from the command shell since they said "MS-Windows".  But,
> > on reflection, there is no guarantee that's the case here.  Not enough
> > info.
>
>I think I said 'bash' in the OP.
>
> > When there is a UNIX shell involved the quoting rules follow whatever
> > the UNIX shell uses (as you know).  When there is no UNIX shell involved
> > then cygwin itself tries to do something halfway intelligent with the
> > arguments.
> >
> > Anyway, with luck, one of our responses should have answered the
> > question.
>
>Ha! (Sorry!)
>Well, 'ls "/cygdrive/c/Program Files" ' works but 'cd
>"/cygdrive/c/Program Files" '  doesn't! The message comes back:
>bash: cd: /cygdrive/c/Program: No such file or directory
>
>
>C.


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