Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <027f01c2f948$aa7c0050$1700a8c0@RIPA3> From: "Anders Ripa" To: References: Subject: Re: complete.tcsh doesn't handle spaces in $HOME Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 20:50:00 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h32KdEg25933 If you search this list for subject "Problems starting tcsh when having spaces in username - with fix" you wil find my diff for fixing this file. I haven't recieved any comments so far. It would be nice to have this in the normal sources. Best regards Anders Ripa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Humphrey" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:12 PM Subject: complete.tcsh doesn't handle spaces in $HOME I have been using Cygwin on a Windows 2000 computer running on a Novell network; my local user name is "Aaron Humphrey", and so my home directory is "/home/Aaron Humphrey". I've been trying to use tcsh, but it would abort out of the startup scripts, saying "If: expression syntax", leaving me with an empty prompt and a number of other problems. The latest upgrade of tcsh didn't fix the problem. I finally traced the problem to complete.tcsh, and eventually determined that it was running into problems whenever it had a condition of the form if (-f $HOME/filename ) because this was expanding to if (-f /home/Aaron Humphrey/filename ) and the space made it invalid. An easy workaround for this problem is just to wrap all of the $HOME/filename conditions in double quotes, which would probably be a good idea in a future release of tcsh. Once I did this in complete.tcsh, tcsh started up just fine. -- --Aaron Humphrey Programmer, Kakari Systems Ltd. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/