Subject: Re: directory names with spaces don't behave, perhaps a tcsh issue?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/26/2002 16:40:59
In article <15483.45690.112894.590032@zachfine.com>,
Zach Fine <zach@zachfine.com> wrote:

You have a broken alias in cd.

unalias cd

and try again...

If you post your alias here you might get a fix for it :-)

christos

>
>I should probably know better than to create a directory whose name
>includes a space, but even if I do such a thing, shouldn't I be able
>to cd into and out of it? 
>
>zach% pwd
>/usr/local/share/httpd/htdocs/zachfine/rambo/rambo III/bow
>zach% cd
>set: Syntax Error.
>zach% cd ..
>set: Syntax Error.
>zach% cd ".."
>set: Syntax Error.
>zach% cd /home/czyz
>set: Syntax Error.
>zach% cd "/home/czyz"
>set: Syntax Error.
>zach%
>
>This is on a NetBSD 1.4.1 system, I'm using tcsh.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Zach Fine
>zach@zachfine.com