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Stuart Sears wrote:
>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
>
>
>
That worked thanks a lot, I would have never thought of using the wildcard!
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