How to navigate to a directory in C:\ with Cygwin?

Question

I\'m trying to install PyQt4 so I can mess around with it. The installation guide said I had to install Sip. The last step to installing Sip is to use the make install

Answer 1

Something that is worth mentioning here is that Cygwin's cygpath, still does not handle spaced Windows paths properly, especially in Bash scripts running under Cygwin. The trick is to understand how Cygwin interprets quotes in Bash scripts.

The following does not work:

#!/bin/bash
TBDIR="/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/MyDir/"

if [ -d "${TBDIR}" ]; then 
    echo "Found MyDir directory at: ${TBDIR}"
    cd "$TBDIR"
else 
    echo "MyDir program directory not found!"
    echo "Wrong DIR path: ${TBDIR}"
    exit 1
fi

But this does work:

#!/bin/bash
# Cygwin-ism: No quotes!
TBDIR=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/MyDir/

if [ -d "${TBDIR}" ]; then 
...

As far as I know, there is currently no known workaround using cygpath, that can properly handle spaces in the bash scripting context but you can use quotes in your scripts.