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. -- -- David Bear College of Public Programs at Arizona State University -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
