[H-GEN] spaces in files

[Jason Henry Parker]

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"Patrick Nichols" <pat at humbug.org.au> writes:

> [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.

It works that way for me now, too:

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.03.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Ah.  Looks like a 1.x version of bash installed on an ageing RedHat
6.1 box was at fault.  I didn't realise at the time the shell wasn't
running on the user's more up-to-date Debian box.

jason, having a very anti-hubritic few days
-- 
``I worry that you'll work in an office ... have children ... celebrate
wedding anniversaries ... the world of heterosexuals is a sick and
boring life!''  --  Aunt Ida

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