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Re: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME has s paces


Well the path variable is an example of this that seems to work w/o
problems.

Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>; "Earnie Boyd"
<earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>; "Town, Brad" <btown@ceddec.com>; "'Ignasi
Palou-Rivera'" <palou@yahoo.com>; <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME has s
paces


> If you can figure a way to make sure that spaces in HOME are always
treated
> as escaped no matter how its used, that's a possibility.  After doing some
> shell programming, its not clear to me how one could guarantee that spaces
> in any environment variable is always escaped but just because the notion
> eludes me doesn't mean it couldn't be done!;-)
>
> Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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>
>
>
> At 07:13 PM 10/20/2000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >What about having cygwin "\ " escape the spaces?
> >
> >Worth a thought?
> >
> >Rob
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
> >To: "Town, Brad" <btown@ceddec.com>; "'Ignasi Palou-Rivera'"
> ><palou@yahoo.com>; <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> >Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 12:55 AM
> >Subject: RE: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME has
s
> >paces
> >
> >
> > > Brad's comment is certainly valid but your solution, Ignasi, is
already
> > > implemented in the current setup.exe.  IMO the better solution is to
use a
> > > mount point like so (using Brad's example):
> > >   mkdir -p /home/palau ;# if it doesn't already exist
> > >   mount -b "C:/Documents and Settings/palau/My Documents" /home/palau
> > >
> > > I suppose that we should add a W2K entry in the TODO list for this
issue.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Earnie.
> > > --- "Town, Brad" <btown@ceddec.com> wrote:
> > > > The best solution would be to not have spaces in HOME at all, since
it
> > > > breaks many a good program.  For example, if you wanted your home
> >directory
> > > > to be "C:\Documents and Settings\palau\My Documents", you could use
> > > > "C:\Docume~1\palau\MyDocu~1" or a mount point.
> > > >
> > > > Brad Town
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Ignasi Palou-Rivera [mailto:palou@yahoo.com]
> > > > > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:33 AM
> > > > > To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > > > > Subject: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME
has
> > > > > spaces
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > The default /etc/profile for the 1.1.4 version of CygWin chokes
when
> > > > > HOME is defined including blanks. The solution is to quote the
> > > > > reference to $HOME in line 14:
> > > > >
> > > > > IPALOU$ diff profile profile.orig
> > > > > 14c14
> > > > > < if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then
> > > > > ---
> > > > > > if [ ! -d $HOME ]; then
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm running under Win2000, but I'm sure that's irrelevant.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ignasi.
> > > >
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