Re: bug in cd

[Gabor Egressy <gabor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 10:43:51AM +0000, Pascal Byrne wrote:
# I've think I've found a bug in 3.0.5 and 3.1.5 when trying to cd into 
# directories whose names have a space on the end. When I try changing to the 
# directory using tab completion 3.0.5, "enters" the directory but actually 
# displays the contents of the root directory. 3.1.5 doesn't recognise the 
# directory exists at all. 
#  
# pbyrne@iesu87:~[17]% echo "$ZSH_VERSION" 
# 3.0.5 
# pbyrne@iesu87:~[18]% mkdir "Shell Scripts" 
# pbyrne@iesu87:~[19]% cd Shell \Scripts \/ 

You have the backslashes in the wrong place.
I have tried to create directories with spaces at beginning, end and
middle.  zsh will cd into them and ls gives a correct listing.
This is with 3.1.5.

# pbyrne@iesu87:~/Shell Scripts [20]% ls 
# Mail.rc        copywptg6      kernel         opt            sendmail.pid   
# test           vol02 
# . 
# . 
# pbyrne@iesu87:~/Shell Scripts [21]% df -k . 
# Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on 
# /dev/vx/dsk/rootvol   492871  286715  156876    65%    / 
# pbyrne@iesu87:~/Shell Scripts [22]% cd .. 
# pbyrne@iesu87:~[23]% zsh3.1.5 
# pbyrne@iesu87:~[1]% cd Shell\ Scripts\     
# cd: no such file or directory: Shell Scripts  
#  
# Thanks, 
# pascal