stupid spaces in environment vars
Larry Hall (Cygwin)
reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Feb 8 02:28:00 GMT 2007
David Bear wrote:
> I would like to have used something like
>
> cd $USERPROFILE
>
> in a bash script but since windows insists on putting spaces in names, this
> seems impossible.
>
> I did find a usecase where the spaces in c:\Documents and Settings\username
> were tripple quoted. However, this did not work for me. Bash still wanted
> to split on the space.
>
> Is there any cool utility that could be used like
> cleanpath=pathcleaner($USERPROFILE)
> cd $cleanpath
>
> 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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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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