Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:01:08 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bash: space in cd arg bug? Message-ID: <37C6B644.76441221@nisser.com> References: <19990825114804.E83273@freebie.lemis.com> <199908270557.GAA68309@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> <19990827153243.V483@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > ... > > Which makes two directories. Why should ``cd'' behave differently > > from an external command - just because it's a builtin ? > > It shouldn't. > > > IMHO, zsh is wrong. > > Agreed. And bash does exactly the same thing in this case. It's way too early for me to be looking at this, especially since I switched to tea, but... I don't see the problem. Which usually means I'm overlooking something, so if someone could point it out to me slowly it will be appreciated. nisser:~$ FOO="Program Files" nisser:~$ echo $FOO Program Files nisser:~$ pushd $FOO bash: pushd: Program: No such file or directory nisser:~$ cd $FOO bash: cd: Program: No such file or directory The thing I fail to see is why y'all seemingly want parameter substitution to do something it doesn't. What the shell does is to substitute the contents of $FOO for occurance. Clearly, if I do the substition: nisser:~$ cd Program Files bash: cd: Program: No such file or directory it fails. So why shouldn't it fail when the shell does it? Then again, another thing that is beyond me is why this fails: nisser:~$ FOO='"Program Files"' nisser:~$ echo $FOO "Program Files" nisser:~$ cd $FOO bash: cd: "Program: No such file or directory nisser:~$ pushd $FOO bash: pushd: "Program: No such file or directory nisser:~$ csh % cd $FOO cd: Too many arguments. nisser:~$ sh \h:\w\$ cd $FOO cd: can't cd to "Program Well, at least it's consistent <g>. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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