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Re: cygpath and spaces in filenames when reading from a file
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:01:29PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Dec 29 17:11, Jon Beniston wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> cygpath can read a list of paths to convert from a file, when started with
>> -file. However, how do you specify paths with spaces in them in this mode?
>> It seems quoting the path or using \ doesn't seem to work. E.g:
>
>No, it doesn't. Space is used as the field separator in the file. I
>assume we need an extension like allowing to specify another separator.
>Another one for next year...
That's an option that I added. I am surprised that it is space delimited since
I thought I intended to make it newline delimited.
I'll take a look at it.
cgf
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