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RE: space in dir name
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:14:36 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: space in dir name
- References: <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B65704169501@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov>
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Igor Peshansky wrote on Monday, December 18, 2006 11:40 PM:
> > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> >> Sunil Ravipati wrote
> >>
> >> The slash on the end of Files/ is harmless. cd will ignore it.
> >> I find it useful*. With it, I do not need to type the slash when
> >> cd'ing into a subdirectory of Program Files/.
> >
> > Actually, one place where it is harmful is when completing
> > directories after "cvs update". Cvs will treat a trailing slash
> > specially, and do something completely unexpected. I've learned to
> > remove that trailing slash, but sometimes I forget and weird things
> > happen.
> >
> >> But if you must get rid of it, the "mark-directories" directive of
> >> readline or bash is probably what you want. See man bash or man
> >> readline.
> >
> > Either that or programmable completion, to turn it off in specific
> > cases (like after "cvs update"). Igor
>
> wrong list? :-) The OP may not be scanning cygwin-talk.
Nope, right list. Absolutely irrelevant to the OP's question, and an
unrelated discussion.
Igor
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