From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 24 18:41:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1D27151CD for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:41:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA28331; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:11:32 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA01579; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:11:31 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:11:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Patrick Seal Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bash: space in cd arg bug? Message-ID: <19990825111131.C83273@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990824213027.A1375@hyperhost.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990824213027.A1375@hyperhost.net>; from Patrick Seal on Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 09:30:27PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 24 August 1999 at 21:30:27 -0400, Patrick Seal wrote: > cd /usr/local/win/Program\ Files/ > or > cd "/usr/local/win/Program Files/" > > both work tcsh, csh, sh, but in bash they result in an error: > bash: cd: /usr/local/win/Program: No such file or directory > > I can only think this is a bash bug, but it's so obvious it *should* have > been fixed long ago. You'd think so, wouldn't you? > Is this happening to anyone else? Yes. I changed to zsh because of it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message