[ -d ' ' ] && echo yes

[Elfyn McBratney]

> 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

In a way it is. ' ' or '           ' no matter how many spaces is a loopback
to the current directory AFAIK. If you try to cd to ' ' or '    ' you will
see the pwd is /path/directory/you/are/in/.


Regards,

Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@exposure.org.uk
www.exposure.org.uk



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