Inasmuch as such a directory does not exist, this should not give any output:
[ -d ' ' ] && echo yes I suspect this is not a feature of bash, but more deeply buried, since ls -ld ' ' believes ' ' is a directory and ls -la ' ' will give you 'total 0' (no . or .. entries). It also believes any name consisting of all spaces is a directory. On the plus side, you can't create a real directory or file named ' ', because it thinks one already exists. -Norton Allen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
