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From: "Anders Ripa" <anders DOT ripa AT mailbox DOT swipnet DOT se>
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Subject: Re: complete.tcsh doesn't handle spaces in $HOME
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 20:50:00 +0200
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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" <HumphreyA AT Kakari DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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. <http://www.kakari.com>



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