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From:	"Bruce Jones" <brucejones AT hawaii DOT rr DOT com>
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Subject:	Makewhatis problem in Man 1.5p-1
Date:	Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:59:37 -1000
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Version info:

Windows XP Pro SP1
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.19(0.150/4/2) 2006-01-20 13:28
Man 1.5p-1

The makewhatis shell script generates an error message when $PWD contains a
space, e.g. "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/username"  The message is:

/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 380: cd: /cygdrive/c/Documents: No such file or
directory

Apart from the message the script appears to execute correctly.

Changing line 380 from 'cd $here' to 'cd "$here"' fixes the problem.

man-1.6c/src/makewhatis.sh (from
http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/) contains the same problem in
line 394.

I'm sending to the cygwin list also since it seems Windows systems are more
likely to have paths with embedded spaces.

Regards,
Bruce


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