Eric said: >According to Tom Plunket on 12/23/2005 11:48 PM: >> >> SHELL_CMD="-l -c \\\"cd '%L'; exec $SHELL_EXE\\\"" >> >> As you can see, this is clearly "wrong" for folders with a >> single-quote mark in them. >> >> My local fix was just to edit the registry and change '%L' to "%L". >> Obviously this affects the handling of this feature with folders that >> have a double-quote mark in them, but as I only use single quotes >> (e.g. "Debbie's Truck" or "Craig's List"), it Works For Me. ;) > > Window's allows ' but not " in filenames. However, Windows also allows $ > in filenames, so switching to double quotes would trade the problems with > ' to problems with $. And you need quoting, or spacing would be > corrupted. Off the top of my head, I can only think of one way that might > preserve ', $, and spaces in the problematic %L when dumped literally into > a shell script, but I don't know if Windows SHELL_CMD can handle embedded > newlines. In a normal shell window, > > $ xargs -0 << 'EOF' > > a '$b > > EOF > a '$b > > the here-doc correctly preserved the input string. So applying that to > the above problem, the registry entry MIGHT work (untested by me) if it is > written as: > > SHELL_CMD="-l -c \\\"xargs -0 cd << 'EOF'\n%L\nEOF\nexec $SHELL_EXE\\\""
Hmmm. It appears that I haven't handled this case consistently. I'll have a look at getting both ' and $ to work properly. Thanks for the report. Dave. chere maintainer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/