> > What I want to do is define an environment > variable so I can easily cd or ls. E.g. > % PF="/cygdrive/c/Program Files" > % cd $PF > % ls $PF/Games > % ls $PF/G<tab completion!> > > The above is close, I can > % cd "$PF"; ls "$PF"/Games; and even > ls "$PF"/G<tab> however, the quotes are clunky.
That's the bash way. You can get omit the enclosing quotes if you change the IFS environment variable like this IFS="". Note that this may harm execution of your commands/scripts. Read the bash man page for more information. My (bypass) solution to your problem is to make a symlink to the desired directory without spaces in it and use that file name. e.g. ln -s "/cygdrive/c/Program Files" ~/PF The advantage of this "bypass" is that you can use the symlink in scripts without defining the environment variable for each one. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Better Safe Than Sorry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/