Re: bash's (built-in) type command can not handle spaces in paths

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Curtis Siemens wrote: How To Reproduce: - Install Cygwin under c:\ or c:\cygwin - some directory that doesn't NEVER DO THAT! see http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC9 rlc -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: bash's (built-in) type command can not handle spaces in paths

- Original Message - From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Curtis Siemens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:05 PM Subject: Re: bash's (built-in) type command can not handle spaces in paths On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Curtis Siemens wrote:

Re: bash's (built-in) type command can not handle spaces in paths

Thanks for the responses. I managed to narrow down what's different in my situation. Basically the bash builtin type command does work fine with paths that contain spaces. The problem is a side effect of using NTFS and accidentally banging my head into NT's horrible over complicated/complex

Re: bash's (built-in) type command can not handle spaces in paths

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:42:53PM -0800, Curtis Siemens wrote: By the way, given that I can actually run an executable that bash/type can't find, does this suggest that possibly the builtin type command is doing something wrong? Yes and no. Obviously it isn't working as it should. But in

Re: bash's (built-in) type command can not handle spaces in paths

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:14:48PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: The problem is being addressed and will be solved perfectly (time will tell !) soon. Hmm. TPIBA. I like it. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

bash's (built-in) type command can not handle spaces in paths

My platform is Windows 2000 (with all the latest patches). This problem probably occurs on a number of Windows platforms. I'm using the latest released Cygwin with Cygwin DLL release version 1.3.20-1 I've searched the Web/Faq/Documentation/Mailing-Lists and haven't seen any reference to this

Re: bash's (built-in) type command can not handle spaces in paths

At 03:19 PM 2/27/2003 -0800, Curtis Siemens wrote: Cygwin's type command (built into bash.exe) does not work for executables that are under a directory that has spaces. Well, it seems to work OK for me: --- 501 $ mkdir /foo\ bar 502 $ touch /foo\ bar/baz 503 $ chmod a+x /foo\ bar/baz 504 $

Re: bash's (built-in) type command can not handle spaces in paths

At 01:51 AM 2/28/2003 -0800, Jeremy Hetzler wrote: What is different about your particular installation, I have no idea. Actually, one idea. Your 'type' might be an alias or function that fails to quote its arguments properly. Try builtin type -a type. If it doesn't return precisely type is a