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From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin@exposure.org.uk>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>, "Norton Allen" <allen@huarp.harvard.edu>
References: <200302032126.QAA22715@bottesini.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:15:33 -0000
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> Inasmuch as such a directory does not exist, this should
> not give any output:
>
>   [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes
>
> I suspect this is not a feature of bash, but more deeply
> buried, since
>
>   ls -ld ' '
>
> believes ' ' is a directory and

In a way it is. ' ' or '           ' no matter how many spaces is a loopback
to the current directory AFAIK. If you try to cd to ' ' or '    ' you will
see the pwd is /path/directory/you/are/in/.


Regards,

Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@exposure.org.uk
www.exposure.org.uk



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