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Re: Bugreport: mkdir under Gnu linux (SuSE)
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Bugreport: mkdir under Gnu linux (SuSE) |
Date: |
Wed, 12 May 2004 10:30:21 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Babatope Aloba <address@hidden> writes:
> my Bug report: adding an extra space between the mkdir command and the
> name of the directory to be created, results in a directory being
> created with a SPACE in front of the name.
> e.g.
>
> mkdir SPC SPC mydir
> results in a directory called SPCmydir
This sounds like a bug in your shell, not in coreutils. When 'mkdir'
starts up, it is given an array of strings, one of which should be
"mydir". If the string is " mydir" then 'mkdir' is supposed to create
a directory with a leading space. It sounds like that's what's
happening to you. If so, you should investigate why your shell is
misbehaving.