Directories with spaces in their names

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lduperval · Post by **lduperval** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 11:38 pm

Hi,

I'm trying to get the ebuild for SmClone (which is now Super Maryo Chronicles...) to cmpile. I need to cd to a directory containing spaces: "SMC 0.95 Preview 1". How do I specify this name in my ebuild? I tried a few things but I always get a

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 /mnt/share/gentoo/tmp/portage/smclone-0.95/work/SMC\: No such file or directory

error. I tried putting the name in quotes, I tried using backslashes but it don't woik. What haven't I tried yet?

L

cartpullerjack · Post by **cartpullerjack** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:55 am

Single quotes might work. I'm not speaking from experience, just out of my ass.

mc_barron · Post by **mc_barron** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:28 am

Sounds like you've tried what I would have tried. Just to be sure: you have tried putting double quotes around the entire path and it doesn't work? (i.e. cd "/path/with spaces")
Single quotes is a good idea too.
Sorry I can't help...but I'm interested in hearing the solution!

Xaid · Post by **Xaid** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:39 am

how about escaping the space with a \ ? like

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cd /mnt/media/some\ super\ long\ name/

edit: suppose the directory name was "some super long name"

omnicloud · Post by **omnicloud** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:43 am

If you tab complete it, it automatically escapes the space with a \ so that would be the best bet.

Given M. Sur · Post by **Given M. Sur** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:53 am

Just a tip, you can also use \ for characters that have a special meaning to bash, such as " ' * ? ( ) [ ] { } ~, etc.

So if you have a file named foo?.bar~what{a}stu pid.[name]

You could delete it with

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rm foo\?.bar\~what\{a\}stu\ pid.\[name\]

lduperval · Post by **lduperval** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 2:34 am

Thanks for the tips. I took a look at the ebuild again and the problem is setting the working directory like this:

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S="${WORKDIR}/SMC\ ${PV}\ Preview\ 1/src/unix"

Instead, I put the full directory names using single quotes in the src_unpack() and it's now going to the correct directory to patch. Not the most elegant way of doing it but if it works...

My patch is currently failing so I'm not getting any further and I won't have time to fiddle with it before a couple of days. However, I suspect that it will fail when it's time to build, so I'll probably rename the directory to somethiing more sane (like SMC-0.95) and make it work. Of course, I'll have to patch some other files, but...

Thanks,

L