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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
