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From: Norton Allen <allen AT huarp DOT harvard DOT edu>
Message-Id: <200302032241.RAA19340@bottesini.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes
To: elfyn-cygwin AT exposure DOT org DOT uk (Elfyn McBratney)
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:41:42 -0500 (est)
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, allen AT huarp DOT harvard DOT edu
In-Reply-To: <01fe01c2cbd3$39221c70$696f86d9@webdev> from "Elfyn McBratney" at Feb 3, 3 10:24:33 pm
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Elfyn McBratney wrote:
> 
> > Are you saying it's a feature? If so, a feature of cygwin or
> > of Windows? Under the Windows Command Prompt, cd " " does not
> > complain, and leaves you in the current directory as you
> > describe, but dir " " gives an error. This is certainly
> > not how it works under other OSes.
> 
> 
> I'm pretty sure it's a feature of SUSv3... Or one of the other POSIXy
> standards.
> 
> However I've been working for hours so my brain is fried and may be spewing
> out random recollections '-)

  FWIW, I've just tested on Linux (of some flavor) and OpenBSD,
  and neither thinks ' ' is a directory.
  
  In any event, I'd like to figure out whether it's a bug or
  a feature under Cygwin so I can move forward.
  
   -Norton
   

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