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Asked: 2026-05-12T16:27:53+00:00

In Cygwin a space in a path has to be escaped with a backslash

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In Cygwin a space in a path has to be escaped with a backslash
Not true in Windows, put the whole path in a quote

Is there a way to convert to this automatically in Ruby?

Otherwise, how in Ruby do I detect if I am running with Windows or Cygwin?

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  1. Editorial Team

    http://rant.rubyforge.org/

    sys.escape("foo bar")
# gives on Windows: '"foo bar"'
# other systems: 'foo\ bar'
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