Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 08:56:28 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Chris Waters <design AT netcom DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Changing directories with Bash?
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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).