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Subject:	Re: cygwin and long filenames with spaces
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In an earlier post, Randall R Schulz said...

> It sounds like you have an alias or shell procedure standing in for the 
> built-in "cd" command.
> 
> What output does this command produce:
> 
>          type -a cd
> 
> If it's not the built-in (i.e., the preceding command produces something 
> other than just "cd is a shell builtin"), then make sure that alias or 
> procedure is defined in such a way to tolerate spaces and meta-characters 
> in its argument.
 
Ah! That vaguely rings a bell.
<goes away and tries it>
Yes, long ago in the days of beta 19.whatever I must have set cd up 
as a function including a 'pwd' line. The response is:

cd is a function
cd ()
{
    builtin cd $1;
    pwd
}
cd is a shell builtin

So - I need to modify the 'builtin ...' line.

<tries a couple of possibilities>

Well, 'builtin cd "$*";' works! No  idea if that's the correct 
modification though.

Thanks for all the help - what  a group!

C. 



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