Re: Bash script help

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On Saturday 07 February 2004 15:29, Mathieu Masse wrote:
> Stuart Sears wrote:
> >use win='mnt/W2K/Documents\ and\ Settings/Mathieu\ Masse/Application\Data/
> >Mozilla/Profiles/Default\ User/qe0cqve6.slt/'
> >The single quotes will prevent the shell from interpreting the '\ ' bits
> > as anything other than literal strings - this means that when you type
> > $win, the value output should include the escapes.
> >try it on the command line first!
> >export win=...
> >cd $win
> >
> >Stuart
>
> Tried it doesn't work, gives me the following:
>
> cp: copying multiple files, but last argument `User/qe0cqve6.slt' is not
> a directory
so it's still interpreting the spaces as argument separators.
here are my experiments with this, and the one tnat finally worked...
# export win='/mnt/w2k/Documents*/Stuart/Application*/Real/RealOne*/'
# echo $win
 /mnt/w2k/Documents and Settings/Stuart/Application Data/Real/RealOne Player/
# cd $win
# pwd
/mnt/w2k/Documents and Settings/Stuart/Application Data/Real/RealOne Player
 
so i would say that using the * wildcard seems like a useable way forward.
for you this would be:
/mnt/W2K/Documents*/Mathieu*/Application*/Mozilla/Profiles/Default*/
qe0cqve6.slt

give it a try and see if it works...

Stuart

ps you don't need to cc me, I'm a subscriber to the list

-- 
Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX


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