Re: stupid spaces in environment vars

Brian Dessent wrote: > David Bear wrote: > >> Okay, the problem is in quoting in shell scripts, I think. >> >> Here's an example: >> #!/usr/bin/bash >> curdir=`pwd` >> echo $curdir >> prodir=`cygpath $USERPROFILE` > > Should be: >

Re: stupid spaces in environment vars

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > 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 useca

calling cgwin apps from the windows shell

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stupid spaces in environment vars

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. -- -- David Bear College of Public Programs at Arizona State University

Re: dealing with spaces in paths

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

Re: dealing with spaces in paths

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\"

dealing with spaces in paths

he 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? -- -- David Bear College o