Hello! I can't get to c:\Program Files using c:\Program/ Files\ any suggestions?
René Berber
r.berber@computer.org
Tue Jun 15 17:19:00 GMT 2010
Matthew Thornton wrote:
> I just recently upgraded to the newer version of cygwin and I am not
> unable to change directory into Program Files or My Documents using the
> forward slash. This was working before the upgrade and I was wondering
> what I should check to see how it was disabled. I have also tried using
> single quotation marks 'c:\Program Files' and this does not work
> either. I really don't want to mount all of the programs that I want to
> use that are installed in Program Files, and I can anyway because there
> are only 30 mount points possible and I have more than 30 programs in
> file folders with spaces in them in Program Files. Is there any way
> around this problem? Thanks!
Operator error?
What exactly did you try to do? for instance here's what you see on my
terminal:
$ cd /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/
$ pwd
/cygdrive/c/Program Files
You can also use quotes:
$ cd "/cygdrive/c/Program Files"/
The last slash is not necessary (it was added by auto-completion).
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René Berber
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