[H-GEN] spaces in files

[Patrick Nichols]

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> [1] : Not to mention the bash bug I saw the other day: there were two
>       directories, `foo' and `foo bar'[2].  Come what may, bash would
>       *not* chdir() into `foo bar', preferring to chdir() to `foo'
>       instead.

[dyno:~$] cd foo\ bar
[dyno:~/foo bar$] cd ..
[dyno:~$] cd foo
[dyno:~/foo$] cd ..
[dyno:~$] bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Directories created by windows on a samba share (ext2).  The problem
doesn't exist on my system.  Time to upgrade/downgrade bash?

-pat



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