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Re: Problem with ls and similar commands in tcsh
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:51:32 +0200
- Subject: Re: Problem with ls and similar commands in tcsh
- References: <20030408135728.193a93dd.steven.obrien2@ntlworld.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 01:57:28PM +0100, Steven O'Brien wrote:
>
> > and have traced the "If: expression syntax" error to the lines
> >
> > if ( -r $HOME/.netrc ) then
> >
> > and
> >
> > if ( -f $HOME/.mh_profile && -x "`which folders`" ) then
> >
> > in /etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh
>
> You will see this failure if your $HOME variable has spaces in it,
> because the expressions as written above do not quote this variable
> correctly. I would urge the tcsh maintainer to change the above lines
> to:
it's the official complete.tcsh file from the vanilla tcsh source (well,
not the latest one but even that doesn't use quoting for $HOME).
Corinna
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