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From: Norton Allen <allen AT huarp DOT harvard DOT edu>
Message-Id: <200302032126.QAA22715@bottesini.harvard.edu>
Subject: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:26:49 -0500 (est)
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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

  ls -la ' '

will give you 'total 0' (no . or .. entries).
It also believes any name consisting of all spaces is
a directory.

On the plus side, you can't create a real directory or
file named ' ', because it thinks one already exists.

  -Norton Allen
  

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