Re: Change Directory

[Todd Poole <tpoole at mail dot com>]

Thanks to all.
I was able to get it to work with "/c/my directory name"


Todd Poole

On 2/24/2014 10:06 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/23/2014 03:40 PM, David Stacey wrote:
> > On 23/02/14 22:27, Todd Poole wrote:
> > > Getting confused on something. From bash terminal I can change
> > > directory like so:
> > >
> > > $ cd /c/directoryname
> > >
> > > But if the directory has multi words it does not recognize the directory:
> > >
> > > $ cd /c/my directory name
> > >
> > > Is there a way to get cygwin to recognize multiple names in a directory?
> >
> > Either surround the whole path in quotes, or use a backslash character
> > '\' before each space:
> >
> >      cd "/c/my directory name"
> >      cd /c/my\ directory\ name
>
> Or use zsh instead of bash (zsh auto-tries concatenating multi-argument
> names into a single-argument directory containing spaces), or write a
> bash function for cd that tries 'command cd "$*"' when $# > 1.

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