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Re: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes
- From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin at exposure dot org dot uk>
- To: "cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>,"Norton Allen" <allen at huarp dot harvard dot edu>
- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:24:33 -0000
- Subject: Re: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes
- References: <200302032230.RAA01491@bottesini.harvard.edu>
> 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.
I'm pretty sure it's a feature of SUSv3... Or one of the other POSIXy
standards.
However I've been working for hours so my brain is fried and may be spewing
out random recollections '-)
Regards,
Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@exposure.org.uk
www.exposure.org.uk
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