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Re: stupid spaces in environment vars
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:17:20 -0500
- Subject: Re: stupid spaces in environment vars
- References: <45CB55AE.1030703@bellsouth.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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?
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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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