> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
