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complete.tcsh doesn't handle spaces in $HOME
- From: "Aaron Humphrey" <HumphreyA at Kakari dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 11:12:02 -0700
- Subject: complete.tcsh doesn't handle spaces in $HOME
I have been using Cygwin on a Windows 2000 computer running on a Novell network; my local user name is "Aaron Humphrey", and so my home directory is "/home/Aaron Humphrey". I've been trying to use tcsh, but it would abort out of the startup scripts, saying "If: expression syntax", leaving me with an empty prompt and a number of other problems. The latest upgrade of tcsh didn't fix the problem.
I finally traced the problem to complete.tcsh, and eventually determined that it was running into problems whenever it had a condition of the form
if (-f $HOME/filename )
because this was expanding to
if (-f /home/Aaron Humphrey/filename )
and the space made it invalid.
An easy workaround for this problem is just to wrap all of the $HOME/filename conditions in double quotes, which would probably be a good idea in a future release of tcsh. Once I did this in complete.tcsh, tcsh started up just fine.
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--Aaron Humphrey
Programmer, Kakari Systems Ltd. <http://www.kakari.com>
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