RE: space in dir name

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

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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