dealing with spaces in paths

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

David Bear wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
>> David Bear wrote:
>>> I'm attempting to script building mount points in order to handle spaces
>>> in file names. So I do something like this:
>>>
>>> homedir=`cygpath -w $USERPROFILE`
>>> mount -buf "\"$homedir\" $HOME/myh
>>>
>>> When I echo the mount command to the syntax looks correct.
>>>
>>> However, when I actually run the mount command via the script I get the
>>> message there are not enough parameters, like mount is not getting what
>>> it needs.
>>>
>>> Dealing with spaces is a huge pain... but this seems be one way to handle
>>> them. Any idea why mount is unhappy when scripted as shown above?
>>>
>> Quote $USERPROFILE.  Loose the '\'s around $homedir.  Make sure that there
>> is only 1 quote preceding $homedir.
>>
> 
> since the homedir does have spaces in it, you need to enclose it in quotes
> to prevent mount for assuming that each separate word in the path is a new
> mount point. There is a sample of it at
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/54674
> 
> the \" escapes the " so that it is passed through to the command line the
> script generates.
> 
> when I leave out the quotes -- I get multiple lines and multiple errors from
> the script.
> 

That's why I said to quote USERPROFILE.  I guess I should have included my
version of your script, which worked fine for me:

#!/bin/bash
homedir=`cygpath -w "$USERPROFILE"`
mount -buf "$homedir" "$HOME"/myh

This is recreated from memory because I don't have access to Cygwin now.
But this is essentially what worked fine for me last night.  Note, the
quote around USERPROFILE is important.

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