cygpath question

[Randall R Schulz]

Rob,

All is not lost. If you simply drag an icon for a file system entity 
and drop it in a Cygwin window, it will get quotes _as necessary_! 
Nice, actually. The syntax will still be Windows, including 
backslashes, but actually Cygwin will handle this correctly.

And in case you're not aware of it, you can ALT-tab while a 
drag-and-drop is in progress without disrupting the drag.

Good luck.

Randall Schulz


At 01:20 2003-01-24, Robert Mark Bram wrote:
>Howdy Randall,
>
> > >    $ cdd C:\Rob\mcd3060\Tri32002\a2
> > >    bash: cd: C:Robmcd3060Tri32002a2: No such file or directory
> > In this case, the unquoted backslashes
> > essentially just disappear, since in
> > each case the character they precede
> > is not special.
>
>Thank you very much for your reply. I forgot the cardinal rule that
>arguments entered on the command line must be quoted if they include
>characters such as \ that are not meant as escape characters...
>
>All of this brings me to the rather depressing conclusion that I cannot make
>the same shortcut in cygwin that I often use in cmd.exe: copying a path from
>Windows Explorer, alt-tabbing to the command prompt, typing "cd " with the
>left hand then right clicking with the right hand and pressing enter to move
>easily to a new directory. Usually, this technique is still easier than the
>auto-complete functions available in bash and XP's cmd.exe...
>
>Rob
>:)


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