stupid spaces in environment vars

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Charles D. Russell wrote:
>Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> David Bear wrote:
>>> 
>>>    I would like to have used something like
>>> 
>>>    cd $USERPROFILE
>>> 
>>> in a bash script but since windows insists on putting spaces in names, this
>>> seems impossible.
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>> 
>>> I know this is a consistent issue with cygwin. There really needs to be a
>>> good solution.
>>  
>> 
>> $ cat cup
>> #!/bin/bash
>> cd "$USERPROFILE"
>> pwd
>> 
>> 
>> $ ./cup
>> /Documents and Settings/me
>> 
>> 
>> What's the problem again?
>> 
>> ____________________
> 
> OK from the system prompt, but I've never found a way to quote this in a 
> shell script.  So I make symlinks to $HOME/my/docs/, my/pics/, my/mus to 
> avoid those infernal microsoft spaces.

Did you try the script I included above?  There's no magic here.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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