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R: pipelines with paths containing spaces
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri at yahoo dot it>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, David Christensen <dpchrist at holgerdanske dot com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:07:01 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: R: pipelines with paths containing spaces
--- Lun 31/8/09, David Christensen ha scritto:
> Da: David Christensen
> Oggetto: pipelines with paths containing spaces
> A: cygwin cygwin.com
> Data: Lunedì 31 agosto 2009, 10:27
> cygwin:
>
> I am having trouble using pipelines with paths containing
> spaces:
>
> ? ? 2009-08-31 01:16:32 Administrator@p43400e ~
> ? ? $ ls -d /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\
> Settings/
> ? ? /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/
>
> ? ? 2009-08-31 01:16:50 Administrator@p43400e ~
> ? ? $ ls -d /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/
> | xargs ls
> ? ? ls: cannot access /cygdrive/c/Documents: No
> such file or directory
> ? ? ls: cannot access and: No such file or
> directory
> ? ? ls: cannot access Settings/: No such file or
> directory
>
> ? ? 2009-08-31 01:16:55 Administrator@p43400e ~
> ? ? $ ls `ls -d /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\
> Settings/`
> ? ? ls: cannot access /cygdrive/c/Documents: No
> such file or directory
> ? ? ls: cannot access and: No such file or
> directory
> ? ? ls: cannot access Settings/: No such file or
> directory
>
>
> I tried writing a Perl script to escape spaces, but that
> didn't work.
>
>
> I tried writing a Perl script to wrap paths in single
> quotes and escape
> single quotes, but that didn't work.
>
>
> I tried searching the mailing list archive, the FAQ, and
> Google
> variations on 'cygwin pipeline spaces', but didn't come up
> with a solid
> hit.
>
>
> I installed Cygwin two days ago.? Attached please find
> cygcheck.out.
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> TIA,
>
> David
not really cygwin specific
find /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/ -print0 |xargs --null ls
see "man xargs"
regards
Marco
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