From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 24 19:18:45 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 D172615240 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:18:38 -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 LAA28553; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:48:06 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA01730; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:48:04 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:48:04 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Roelof Osinga Cc: Patrick Seal , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bash: space in cd arg bug? Message-ID: <19990825114804.E83273@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990824213027.A1375@hyperhost.net> <19990825111131.C83273@freebie.lemis.com> <37C34F37.5BE733A2@nisser.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <37C34F37.5BE733A2@nisser.com>; from Roelof Osinga on Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 04:04:39AM +0200 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 Wednesday, 25 August 1999 at 4:04:39 +0200, Roelof Osinga wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> 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. > > nisser:~$ mkdir "Program Files" > zsh -> FOO=/C:/Program\ Files zsh -> echo $FOO /C:/Program Files zsh -> cd $FOO zsh -> pwd /C:/Program Files zsh -> cd zsh -> bash bash -> FOO=/C:/Program\ Files bash -> echo $FOO /C:/Program Files bash -> cd $FOO bash: cd: /C:/Program: No such file or directory bash -> > You were saying? ;) 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