space in dir name

[Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]]

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.