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I tried a lot of things. See below: Attempt to get into the directory: /cygdrive/c/Users/my dir/Documents $ DOCS="/cygdrive/c/Users/my\ dir/Documents" $ echo $DOCS /cygdrive/c/Users/my\ dir/Documents $ cd $DOCS -bash: cd: /cygdrive/c/Users/my\: No such file or directory $ cd /cygdrive/c/Users/my\ dir/Documents (success) Very weird behaviour. When I manually type it in, the backspace does its escape character thing. But not when I use parameter expansion with the variable DOCS. I tried other variations such as no backslash. $ DOCS=/cygdrive/c/Users/Rahman\ dir/Documents $ echo $DOCS /cygdrive/c

I've created a standalone java application in which I'm trying to change the directory using the "cd" command in Ubuntu 10.04 terminal. I've used the following code. String[] command = new String[]{"cd",path}; Process child = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command, null); But the above code gives the following error Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "cd": java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory Can anyone please tell me how to implement it? Joachim Sauer There is no executable called cd , because it can't be implemented in a separate process. The

I'm trying to use the system() function in a C program. For example, I tried to create a directory on my desktop, using the system() function. My code: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(void) { system("cd c:\\Users\\USER\\Desktop"); system("mkdir test"); return 0; } When I run this code, a directory is created, but not on my desktop. It is created in my project directory. Why is this happens? Can I use the cd command in the system() function? If not, is there an replacement to the cd command that will work with system()? I'm using Windows OS. I'm trying to use system() from a C