Apologies for this OT post. I need some help debugging a bash script. It
just happens to be provided by Apple Inc.
In a terminal session under OSX-10.9.3 I want do do this:
cd ~/'Library/Application Support'
Which is a simple enough request. However, OSX returns: cd
/users/byrnejb/Library/Application: No such file or directory. The space
evidently acts as a delimiter to cd even though the path is quoted.
However this:
ls -l ~/'Library/Application Support'
returns the directory contents without error. Apparently ls is not affected.
I googled this off and on for the past two days and found nothing that works
for me. All advice was to simply quote the path, which I was already doing
and which also did not work. I eventually fixed my problem by doing this:
builtin cd ~/'Library/Application Support'
It seems that OSX-10.9.3 implements 'cd' as an external script that
contains
the following (Note the back-ticks surrounding the echo pipe tr commands):
#!/bin/sh
builtin `echo ${0##*/} | tr \[:upper:] \[:lower:]` ${1+"$@"}
My guess is that this is where the problem is but I cannot tell what it is.
Can a bash virtuoso point out the syntax error that is causing this script to
mis-parse the path argument? I just want to fix this so I do not need to
remember to use the builtin command when switching directories. Sheer
laziness on my part.
Thanks
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On Tue, Jun 03, 2014, James B. Byrne wrote:>Apologies for this OT post. I need some help debugging a bash script. It >just happens to be provided by Apple Inc. > >In a terminal session under OSX-10.9.3 I want do do this: > >cd ~/'Library/Application Support'Works for me on my OS X 10.8.5 Macbook Pro, xterm under xQuartz and under the Terminal.app.>Which is a simple enough request. However, OSX returns: cd >/users/byrnejb/Library/Application: No such file or directory. The space >evidently acts as a delimiter to cd even though the path is quoted. > >However this: > >ls -l ~/'Library/Application Support'Perhaps you have 'cd' as an alias or a function which loses the quotes when passing to the real cd? Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 For every subtle and complicated question, there is a perfectly simple and straightforward answer, which is wrong. -- H. L. Mencken
On Tue, 3 Jun 2014, James B. Byrne wrote:> Apologies for this OT post. I need some help debugging a bash script. It > just happens to be provided by Apple Inc. > > In a terminal session under OSX-10.9.3 I want do do this: > > cd ~/'Library/Application Support'Try cd "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/" -- Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com 45?38' N, 122?6' W