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Re: stupid spaces in environment vars


* //Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

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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 usecase where the spaces in c:\Documents and Settings\username were tripple quoted. However, this did not work for me. Bash still 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.


$ cat cup
#!/bin/bash
cd "$USERPROFILE"
pwd


$ ./cup /Documents and Settings/me


What's the problem again?


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OK from the system prompt, but I've never found a way to quote this in a shell script. So I make symlinks to $HOME/my/docs/, my/pics/, my/mus to avoid those infernal microsoft spaces.


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