Sunday, January 17, 2010

cygpath quoting for directories with spaces in their name

Had to experiment with quoting with cygpath to patch up some scripts under cygwin.
I was trying to properly quote an environment variable defined on the Windows side:  
MSSDK=C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0


  • Just using 

    cygpath –u $MSSDK

    resulted in a multi-line return of: 

    C:/Program
Files/Microsoft/
SDKs/Windows/v7.0



  • cygpath –u “$MSSDK”

    returned a single line: 

    /cygdrive/c/Progarm Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.0


  • and finally 

    echo \”`cygpath –u “$MSSDK”`"\”

    returned the directory properly quoted: 

    “/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.0”


Hurray. Back to script editing…
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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Thanks I similarly had to adjust this for babun since I had a space in my user folder when referencing a core.editor to sublime.

#!/bin/bash
"/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/subl.exe" -w -n "`cygpath -d -w "$@"`"


That helped me get around the path issues.

January 18, 2017 at 6:37 PM

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