Re: [Libguestfs] [virt-tools-list] Paths with whitespace in guestfish
[I don't check this list for libguestfs questions, hence the late reply. There's a libguestfs mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs ] On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 08:06:03PM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
Is guestfish able to handle paths that include whitespace? I've tried just about everything I can think of:
<fs> ls /Users/Owner/My\ Documents ls should have 1 parameter(s) type 'help ls' for help on ls <fs> ls "/Users/Owner/My Documents" libguestfs: error: ls0: opendir: /Users/Owner/My Documents: No such file or directory
This syntax (single or double quoting) is the correct one and works fine for me:
<fs> ls "/Program Files/Windows NT/Accessories" mswrd6.wpc mswrd8.wpc wordpad.exe write.wpc
<fs> ls "/program files/windows nt/accessories"
I'm guessing it may be a case sensitivity problem. You could try prepending 'win:...' (a guestfish-specific hack for Windows) in front of the path, as described in the manual: http://libguestfs.org/guestfish.1.html#windows-paths For example: libguestfs: error: ls0: opendir: /program files/windows nt/accessories: No such file or directory
<fs> ls "win:/program files/windows nt/accessories" mswrd6.wpc mswrd8.wpc wordpad.exe write.wpc
<fs> set-trace true <fs> ls "win:/program files/windows nt/accessories" libguestfs: trace: case_sensitive_path "/program files/windows nt/accessories" libguestfs: trace: case_sensitive_path = "/Program Files/Windows NT/Accessories" libguestfs: trace: ls "/Program Files/Windows NT/Accessories" libguestfs: trace: ls0 "/Program Files/Windows NT/Accessories" "/tmp/libguestfse0H7nF/ls10" libguestfs: trace: ls0 = 0 libguestfs: trace: ls = ["mswrd6.wpc", "mswrd8.wpc", "wordpad.exe", "write.wpc"] mswrd6.wpc mswrd8.wpc wordpad.exe write.wpc
(notice the extra call to case_sensitive_path in the trace). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html
On 11/18/2015 08:22 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: double quoting) is the correct one and works
fine for me:
<fs> ls "/Program Files/Windows NT/Accessories" mswrd6.wpc mswrd8.wpc wordpad.exe write.wpc
I'm guessing it may be a case sensitivity problem. You could try prepending 'win:...' (a guestfish-specific hack for Windows) in front of the path, as described in the manual:
http://libguestfs.org/guestfish.1.html#windows-paths
For example:
<fs> ls "/program files/windows nt/accessories" libguestfs: error: ls0: opendir: /program files/windows nt/accessories: No such file or directory
<fs> ls "win:/program files/windows nt/accessories" mswrd6.wpc mswrd8.wpc wordpad.exe write.wpc
<fs> set-trace true <fs> ls "win:/program files/windows nt/accessories" libguestfs: trace: case_sensitive_path "/program files/windows nt/accessories" libguestfs: trace: case_sensitive_path = "/Program Files/Windows NT/Accessories" libguestfs: trace: ls "/Program Files/Windows NT/Accessories" libguestfs: trace: ls0 "/Program Files/Windows NT/Accessories" "/tmp/libguestfse0H7nF/ls10" libguestfs: trace: ls0 = 0 libguestfs: trace: ls = ["mswrd6.wpc", "mswrd8.wpc", "wordpad.exe", "write.wpc"] mswrd6.wpc mswrd8.wpc wordpad.exe write.wpc
(notice the extra call to case_sensitive_path in the trace).
In "/Program Files" it works fine for me, too. I still can't access "/Users/Owner/My Documents" Aha!! I found the problem. In Windows 7, "My Documents" is a link to "Documents". Apparently guestfish can't follow links. I can list "/Users/Owner/Documents" just fine. The space was a red herring -- I can list "/Users/Owner/Saved Games" just fine, too. Thanks for the response. It got me looking at what was different between the directories that worked and those that didn't. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.
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