On 02/23/2014 03:40 PM, David Stacey wrote: > On 23/02/14 22:27, Todd Poole wrote: >> Getting confused on something. From bash terminal I can change >> directory like so: >> >> $ cd /c/directoryname >> >> But if the directory has multi words it does not recognize the directory: >> >> $ cd /c/my directory name >> >> Is there a way to get cygwin to recognize multiple names in a directory? > > Either surround the whole path in quotes, or use a backslash character > '\' before each space: > > cd "/c/my directory name" > cd /c/my\ directory\ name
Or use zsh instead of bash (zsh auto-tries concatenating multi-argument names into a single-argument directory containing spaces), or write a bash function for cd that tries 'command cd "$*"' when $# > 1. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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