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RE: Spaces in Paths
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:51:30 -0500
- Subject: RE: Spaces in Paths
At Monday, March 28, 2005 1:01 PM, zzapper wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:42:58 -0500, wrote:
>>
>> Have you tried the following:
>>
>> mysqldump="/cygdrive/c/program files/mysql/MySQL Server
>> 4.1/bin/mysqldump.exe" "$mysqldump" $params
>>
>> Without the double-quotes around the actual call, the variable gets
>> split at spaces such that only the part up to the first space is
>> treated
>> as the command (/cygdrive/c/program\) and the rest as parameters
>
>> Cheers,
>> Sebastien
> That worked thanx
Changing
program files
to
progra~1
might also work. (It does for me on XP with NTFS.) "progra~1" is the FAT32
short file names corresponding to "Program Files".
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