Re: cant untar
[email protected] ("Mark J. Reed") Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:42:29 -0400
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Andy Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > tar is getting an unquoted pathname containing spaces - so it sees the name > as three distinct arguments. Which is an example of horribly sloppy programming somewhere in CPAN. I can't believe we still have issues with spaces in filenames... > A local fix would be to move your cygwin cpan to ~/.cpan (which probably > maps to something like C:\cygwin\home\noah\.cpan in Windows) - no spaces. I would guess rather that the reason the OP's .cpan is in C:\Documents and Settings\noah is because that *is* ~. In which case he would need to change his home directory in cygwin's passwd file (or rerun cpan config and point it someplace else..) -- Mark J. Reed <[email protected]>