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Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 16:48:00 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: bash & filenames with spaces
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Larry,

I don't think the mount table can account for the diagnostic that Will 
reported.

My guess would be that there's a shell procedure defined called "cd" and it 
was not written to accommodate arguments with spaces.


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 16:31 2002-04-01, you wrote:
>At 07:15 PM 4/1/2002, Will Parsons wrote:
> >Bash won't allow me to cd to a directory with a space in it.  The FAQ
> >implies that all that is necessary is to escape the space, but whether
> >I type (e.g.):
> >
> >cd /c/Program\ Files
> >
> >or
> >
> >cd '/c/Program Files'
> >
> >I get a message:
> >
> >cd: Program: No such file or directory
> >
> >Am I missing something obvious here?
>
>
>You're missing something but it's not obvious what it is.  Try a few 
>variations on this, seeing if you can eliminate things like the mount 
>table and so on.  Perhaps you want to run strace on bash to see if you can 
>see where it has trouble.  Looking at the output of cygcheck -s -r -v 
>might help too.
>
>
>Larry Hall


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