On 2007-11-10, Luntain wrote:
>
> I want to define a variable pointing to my desktop location, in bash I say
>
> desktop="\"/cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Luntain/Desktop\""
>
> When I echo it looks ok, and yet when I input cd $desktop it complaints
> that there is no /cygdrive/c/Dokumente directory. wtf? I also tried
> defining desktop using '\ ', that is
>
> desktop="/cygdrive/c/Dokumente\\ und\\ Ein...
>
> I do it obviously in cygwin bash, and I don't know if it would work on
> Linux.

The quotes are not part of the path; remove them.

desktop="/cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Luntain/Desktop"

When you use it, quote the variable, e.g.:

cd "$desktop"

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