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Re: cd to the path including space.
Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 04:46:26PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> findtexmf psfonts_t1.map
> >
> >cd "$(cygpath -u "$(findtexmf psfonts_t1.map)")"
>
> cd "$(cygpath -u '$(findtexmf psfonts_t1.map)')"
>
> will probably work a little better. As Eric knows, you can't nest quotes
> that way.
Huh? My example works just fine; it's yours that is broken (since ''
surpresses the innermost $() command substitution):
$ echo "$(echo '$(echo 'a b')')"
$(echo a b)
By the way, $() is saner than `` when it comes to nesting and "" (as required
by POSIX):
$ echo "$(echo "$(echo 'a b')")"
a b
Here's the same thing in properly quoted ``, at least when using a POSIX-
compliant shell (in general, "`""`" is non-portable, since other bourne shell
implementations parse it differently than what POSIX requires):
$ echo "`echo \"\`echo 'a b'\`\"`"
a b
(in examples like these, I like to use two spaces to guarantee that I've used
enough quoting)
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Eric Blake
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