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[ -d ' ' ] && echo yes
- From: Norton Allen <allen at huarp dot harvard dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:26:49 -0500 (est)
- Subject: [ -d ' ' ] && echo yes
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
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