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Re: bash & filenames with spaces
On 2002.04.01 19:48 Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Larry,
>
> I don't think the mount table can account for the diagnostic that
> Will reported.
>
> My guess would be that there's a shell procedure defined called "cd"
> and it was not written to accommodate arguments with spaces.
How embarassing. There in my .bashrc file (which I had taken from a
Unix system) I had cleverly (?) defined:
cd ()
{
command cd $1
pwd
}
And of course I had never noticed the bug in Unix...
Thanks to all who replied.
> At 16:31 2002-04-01, you wrote:
>> At 07:15 PM 4/1/2002, Will Parsons wrote:
>> >Bash won't allow me to cd to a directory with a space in it. The
>> FAQ
>> >implies that all that is necessary is to escape the space, but
>> whether
>> >I type (e.g.):
>> >
>> >cd /c/Program\ Files
>> >
>> >or
>> >
>> >cd '/c/Program Files'
>> >
>> >I get a message:
>> >
>> >cd: Program: No such file or directory
>> >
>> >Am I missing something obvious here?
>>
>>
>> You're missing something but it's not obvious what it is. Try a few
>> variations on this, seeing if you can eliminate things like the
>> mount table and so on. Perhaps you want to run strace on bash to
>> see if you can see where it has trouble. Looking at the output of
>> cygcheck -s -r -v might help too.
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