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[Todd Poole]

Thanks to all.
I was able to get it to work with "/c/my directory name"


Todd Poole

On 2/24/2014 10:06 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/23/2014 03:40 PM, David Stacey wrote:
>> On 23/02/14 22:27, Todd Poole wrote:
>>> Getting confused on something. From bash terminal I can change
>>> directory like so:
>>>
>>> $ cd /c/directoryname
>>>
>>> But if the directory has multi words it does not recognize the directory:
>>>
>>> $ cd /c/my directory name
>>>
>>> Is there a way to get cygwin to recognize multiple names in a directory?
>>
>> Either surround the whole path in quotes, or use a backslash character
>> '\' before each space:
>>
>>      cd "/c/my directory name"
>>      cd /c/my\ directory\ name
>
> Or use zsh instead of bash (zsh auto-tries concatenating multi-argument
> names into a single-argument directory containing spaces), or write a
> bash function for cd that tries 'command cd "$*"' when $# > 1.
>

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