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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\" $HOME/myh > > > > When I echo the mount command to the syntax looks correct. > > > > However, when I actually run the mount command via the script I get the > > message there are not enough parameters, like mount is not getting what it > > needs. > > > > Dealing with spaces is a huge pain... but this seems be one way to handle > > them. Any idea why mount is unhappy when scripted as shown above? > > because you are feeding mount a path like /boo/some stuff/ like mount /boo/some stuff. unfortunately this is because you need quotes around that path. here's what i think your trying to run: mount /cygdrive/c/documents and settings/$UNAME/ this will cause mount to think its bring run with the hooks ?/cygdrive/c/documents ?and ?settings/$UNAME/ run something like mount "/cygdrive/c/documents and settings/"$UNAME"/" and it should work... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFpb8GXIyDjlIx4voRAsmOAJoD3MTTSMozlvCxNZLjLm1Ne7wR5QCgmJs5 fthMBl+mfxyWtjX1tdfZiS4= =rHkF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
