From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-05-03T21:50:00+09:00
Subject: Re: FileTest::exists? Not Finding Windows Files with Spaces in Name

Dennis Mendelson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please help with the following:
>
> Ruby's FileTest::exists? is not finding Windows files with spaces in
> their name. I could use a work-around like grep'ping the result of
'ls
> <filename>' (I use Cygwin), but I'm thinking there must be a way to
> make FileTest do the work.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dennis

If this is an issue, it must be particular to cygwin:

irb(main):002:0> File.exists?("C:\\Program Files")
=> true

Do you have some sample code you could show us?

Regards,

Dan