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Re: Bash puzzle: Spaces, environment variables and tab completion
- From: "Lassi A. Tuura" <lassi dot tuura at cern dot ch>
- To: James Shaw <qumqam at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 11:31:08 +0100
- Subject: Re: Bash puzzle: Spaces, environment variables and tab completion
- Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, USA
- References: <20021205060104.39630.qmail@web13602.mail.yahoo.com>
You might want to try with zsh, it's more flexible and convenient to use
than bash. I haven't used it on Windows, but here's a linux example:
$ mkdir -p '/tmp/foo/a bar'
$ F='/tmp/foo/a bar'
$ ls -ld $F
drwxr-xr-x 2 lat zh 4096 Dec 5 11:26 /tmp/foo/a bar
$ touch $F/xyz
$ ls -laF $F
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 lat zh 4096 Dec 5 11:26 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 lat zh 4096 Dec 5 11:26 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 lat zh 0 Dec 5 11:26 xyz
It has gadzillion options to set, so how it works might be function of
what I have set as my zsh environment, but it should be possible.
//lat
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