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 Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:51:32 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with ls and similar commands in tcsh Message-ID: <20030409125132.GC1928@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030408135728.193a93dd.steven.obrien2@ntlworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030408135728.193a93dd.steven.obrien2@ntlworld.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 01:57:28PM +0100, Steven O'Brien wrote: > > > and have traced the "If: expression syntax" error to the lines > > > > if ( -r $HOME/.netrc ) then > > > > and > > > > if ( -f $HOME/.mh_profile && -x "`which folders`" ) then > > > > in /etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh > > You will see this failure if your $HOME variable has spaces in it, > because the expressions as written above do not quote this variable > correctly. I would urge the tcsh maintainer to change the above lines > to: it's the official complete.tcsh file from the vanilla tcsh source (well, not the latest one but even that doesn't use quoting for $HOME). Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/