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Hey all, how goes it?

I'm using Cygwin on a windows box, kind of like putting a Ferrari engine in a Smart Car. Anyways, I'm trying to set a variable to go to this directory

/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Default User/.settings

I can do it with the command...

cd /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/Default\ User/.settings

but I'd like to know how to set the full path to a variable and use the variable with cd. I tried using double backslashes and eval, but to no avail. I am working around with making a function with the cd command in it, but always want to know more than one way to do something. Ideas?

Hello BeacoN :)

What's the language you are using on Cygwin and is the command parsed more than once?

Best

Charles

You should be able to just go
variable="/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Default User/.settings"
and
cd "$variable"


Cheers,
Tink

Charles,

It's just a simple BASH shell I was trying to get to a directory with.

Tink,

Many thanks, don't know why I didn't try that. I guess that's what I get for being forced into a Windows environment in work-my BASH gets rusty. Your suggestion worked fine-I forgot to use the double quotes in both places to reserve spaces.

-Brian