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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 20:43:44 -0500
From: "William B . Parsons" <wbparsons AT pcnet DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: bash & filenames with spaces
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In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020401164229.029cf138@pop3.cris.com>; from rrschulz@cris.com on Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 19:48:00 -0500
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On 2002.04.01 19:48 Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Larry,
> 
> I don't think the mount table can account for the diagnostic that 
> Will reported.
> 
> My guess would be that there's a shell procedure defined called "cd" 
> and it was not written to accommodate arguments with spaces.

How embarassing.  There in my .bashrc file (which I had taken from a
Unix system) I had cleverly (?) defined:

cd ()
{
    command cd $1
    pwd
}

And of course I had never noticed the bug in Unix...

Thanks to all who replied.

> At 16:31 2002-04-01, you wrote:
>> At 07:15 PM 4/1/2002, Will Parsons wrote:
>> >Bash won't allow me to cd to a directory with a space in it.  The 
>> FAQ
>> >implies that all that is necessary is to escape the space, but 
>> whether
>> >I type (e.g.):
>> >
>> >cd /c/Program\ Files
>> >
>> >or
>> >
>> >cd '/c/Program Files'
>> >
>> >I get a message:
>> >
>> >cd: Program: No such file or directory
>> >
>> >Am I missing something obvious here?
>> 
>> 
>> You're missing something but it's not obvious what it is.  Try a few 
>> variations on this, seeing if you can eliminate things like the 
>> mount table and so on.  Perhaps you want to run strace on bash to 
>> see if you can see where it has trouble.  Looking at the output of 
>> cygcheck -s -r -v might help too.



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