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I am attempting to set up aliases for my Cygwin bash shells, to run programs contained in the standard Windows C:\Program Files subdirectories. Unfortunately, the alias command really doesn’t like spaces in a directory name, and nothing I’ve tried seems to work. I’m trying to get the following running:
alias npp='/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe'
I am currently cheating and using a soft link, but I would prefer to use an alias.
Escape Characters:
alias npp="/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe"Edit: Note the change from single to double quotes as well.