Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/28/02:03:54
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Chris Waters wrote:
> >`d' and `dir' are programs from GNU Fileutils ported to DJGPP. `dir' is
> >just like `ls -l', and `d' is a symlink to `dir'.
>
> Ah, ok, haven't downloaded those yet. So if they're not bash builtins,
> then they don't necessarily reveal that much about what's going on in
> the guts of bash.
When `bash' calls external programs, it is responsible for creating the
expanded command line for those programs. So these utilities might
reveal problems, if any, in that expansion (like if "Program\ Files" is
not passed to `dir' as a single string which winds up in a single argv[]
element).
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