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RE: Help changing dir with spaces...
- From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>
- To: 'Jonathan Gift' <j dot gift at wanadoo dot fr>, cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:24:09 -0500
- Subject: RE: Help changing dir with spaces...
> From: Jonathan Gift [mailto:j.gift@wanadoo.fr]
> Subject: Help changing dir with spaces...
> I'm very familiar with Linux and new to Cywin, but one of my first
> priorities is to mobe around the Bash shell. The only really pressing
matter
> is how to move to the folders under WXP: C:\Documents and settings
>
> I can move to C:\Work or C:\tmp but anything with spaces it balks at.
Since
> I can't change XP's default, is there a way to get Bash to accept the
space?
Since you are very familiar with Linux this should
be no problem. Do it the same as in Linux:
cd /c/"Documents and settings"
or
cd /c/Documents\ and\ settings
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