On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Felipe Franciosi wrote: > Hello there! > > I've looked into this list archives and haven't found this issue being > discussed before, so I've decided to post it. > > It's my first time using cygwin, and I've noticed that the .bash_profile > file came with the following content: > > --------------------8<-------------------- > if [ -e ${HOME}/.bashrc ] ; then > source ${HOME}/.bashrc > fi > --------------------8<-------------------- > > Well, the thing is that neither this test neither the command line would > work with directories containing spaces. > > I think that it's very common for windows users to have spaces on their > usernames (my case), which would automatically include a space into the > ${HOME} variable. > > The solution I've found to fix this issue is to set commas around both > lines, resulting in this: > > --------------------8<-------------------- > if [ -e "${HOME}/.bashrc" ] ; then > source "${HOME}/.bashrc" > fi > --------------------8<-------------------- > > What do you say about it?
We'd say that cygwin-apps is the wrong list for this report; that the right list is the main Cygwin list (<cygwin at cygwin dot com>); and that this issue *is* in the archives of that list. Redirecting. Please remove cygwin-apps from any further discussion on this. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT