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Re: bug in tcsh 6.15.00-4


On Jun 17 10:14, Steffen Sledz wrote:
> I've found a small bug in /etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh of tcsh package
> 6.15.00-4, which makes some problems if $HOME contains white spaces.
> The fix for this is an easy one as this diff shows:
> 
> % diff /etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh /etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh.org
> 42,43c42,43
> <         if ( -r "$f" ) then
> <           set hosts = ($hosts `grep -v "+" "$f" | grep -E -v "^#" | tr -s " " "       " | cut -f 1`)
> ---
> >         if ( -r $f ) then
> >           set hosts = ($hosts `grep -v "+" $f | grep -E -v "^#" | tr -s " " " " | cut -f 1`)
> 
> I'm not familiar with cygwin development. I've reported this in
> cygwin-apps before, but i was told to post it here again. I hope
> that's the right way.

Yes, this is the right way.  The above problem is also an upstream
problem.  Thanks for the patch.

It would be better in the long run *not* to use spaces in path names,
though.  It's not very tricky to set up and it helps to avoid
annoying problems with shell scripts, etc.


Corinna

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