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RE: cygpath question
At 15:04 2003-01-25, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
At 07:03 PM 1/24/2003, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>Rob,
>
>...
>I really don't know what's different on my system that makes this
nifty feature work for me. I'm inclined to think it's not a BASH
setting or anything specific to my Cygwin configuration.
>It works in CMD.exe, too, including the part about adding quotes
only when needed. It could be something I configured via Xteq's
X-Setup or TweakUI. I'm an inveterate customizer.
>Perhaps it depends on which version of Windows you're running? I
have Win2K Pro with SP3 and pretty much all the updates installed.
(What am I saying "pretty much?" I'm compulsive about updating!)
OK, I played with this a bit and I think I'm narrowing in on a point
of significance. I found that my console bash and cmd worked exactly
as Randall suggests if the path I was dragging and dropping had a
space in it's name. In these cases, the result was quoted (with
""). Otherwise, the path that resulted was not quoted. Randall, is
this what you see there?
Larry Hall
Larry,
Yes, exactly--quotes are supplied only when the drag entity includes
spaces (anywhere in the absolute name). Which, of course, means I ought
to read my own posts once in a while, since without the quotes and the
unconditional presence of backslashes, this "feature" is less than ideal.
Randall Schulz
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