Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > > 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 > > In a way it is. ' ' or ' ' no matter how many spaces is a loopback > to the current directory AFAIK. If you try to cd to ' ' or ' ' you will > see the pwd is /path/directory/you/are/in/.
Are you saying it's a feature? If so, a feature of cygwin or of Windows? Under the Windows Command Prompt, cd " " does not complain, and leaves you in the current directory as you describe, but dir " " gives an error. This is certainly not how it works under other OSes. -Norton -- 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/
