On Saturday 07 February 2004 15:29, Mathieu Masse wrote:That worked thanks a lot, I would have never thought of using the wildcard!
Stuart Sears wrote:
Tried it doesn't work, gives me the following: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
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
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