Posted by Rik on 10/18/06 00:19

Nospam wrote:
> I am trying to get to the bin directory of mysql 5 on windows, the
> name of the mysql folder whereby I can cd to the bin directory is
> MySQL Server 5.0 and windows has shortened it to MYSQLS~1 however I
> cannot get to the directory regardless of what I type, it keeps
> saying invalid directory, this is what my dos prompt looks like:
>
>
> C:\Program Files>cd mysql
>
> C:\Program Files\MySQL>dir
>
>
> Directory of C:\Program Files\MySQL
>
> . <DIR> 17/10/06 17:16 .
> .. <DIR> 17/10/06 17:16 ..
> MYSQLS~1 0 <DIR> 17/10/06 17:16 MySQL Server 5.0
> 0 file(s) 0 bytes
> 3 dir(s) 275.46 MB free
>
> C:\Program Files\MySQL>cd mysql~1
> Invalid directory
>
> C:\Program Files\MySQL>cd mysqls~1
> Invalid directory
>
> C:\Program Files\MySQL>cd MYSQLS~1
> Invalid directory
>
> C:\Program Files\MySQL>cd MYSQLS~1

If you quote it, the full name will work, so:
cd "MySQL Server 5.0"

Else:

cd m (and then press the 'tab', here it's configured to autocomplete the
dir name).

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

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