.bashrc profile under /etc/skel is broken

[VTKnightMare]

please see my forum post here: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/forum/support/20120214/cant-cd-folders-spaces-naming-not-n00bbash-corruption

[Alon Swartz (alonswartz)]

Thanks for reporting the issue. I committed a fix and it will be included in all new appliances.
You can fix it in current releases with the following diff:

/etc/skel/.bashrc
@@ -30,17 +30,17 @@ fi

 function realpath()
 {
- f=$1
+ f=$@

- if [ -d $f ]; then
+ if [ -d "$f" ]; then
         base=""
- dir=$f
+ dir="$f"
     else
- base="/$(basename $f)"
- dir=$(dirname $f)
+ base="/$(basename "$f")"
+ dir=$(dirname "$f")
     fi

- dir=$(cd $dir && /bin/pwd)
+ dir=$(cd "$dir" && /bin/pwd)

     echo "$dir$base"
 }
@@ -53,10 +53,10 @@ promptpath () {
     # if we are in the home directory
     if echo $realpwd | grep -q "^$realhome"; then
         path=$(echo $realpwd | sed "s|^$realhome|\~|")
- if [ $path = "~" ] || [ $(dirname $path) = "~" ]; then
+ if [ "$path" = "~" ] || [ "$(dirname "$path")" = "~" ]; then
             echo $path
         else
- echo $(basename $(dirname $path))/$(basename $path)
+ echo $(basename $(dirname "$path"))/$(basename "$path")
         fi
         return
     fi
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ promptpath () {
     if [ $(dirname $path_dir) = "/" ]; then
         echo $PWD
     else
- path_parent=$(basename $path_dir)
- path_base=$(basename $PWD)
+ path_parent=$(basename "$path_dir")
+ path_base=$(basename "$PWD")

         echo $path_parent/$path_base
     fi

[tssgery (eric-aceshome)]

Although marked as fixed, I am seeing this behaviour on TKL 12.0 appliances.

To recreated the issue, I have:

1) created a new userid, named "eric"
2) logged in as "eric" and created a directory named "a b" in /home/eric
3) log in as root, and attempted to cd to /home/eric/a\ b

I received the following error:

root@turnkey ~# cd /home/eric/a\ b/
dirname: extra operand `b'
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
-bash: [: =: unary operator expected

The contents of /home/eric include:

root@turnkey /home/eric# ls -la
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 8 eric eric 4096 Sep 19 03:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 4 14:49 ..
drwx------ 2 eric eric 4096 Sep 10 00:58 .aptitude
-rw------- 1 eric eric 9747 Sep 19 03:28 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 53 Sep 4 15:25 .gitconfig
-rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 687 Sep 4 15:27 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 eric eric 3995 Sep 4 14:53 .screenrc
drwxrwxr-x 2 eric eric 4096 Sep 4 14:51 .ssh
drwxr-xr-x 2 eric eric 4096 Sep 19 03:27 a b
drwxrwxr-x 2 eric eric 4096 Sep 9 16:03 bin
drwxr-xr-x 12 eric eric 4096 Sep 5 11:43 git
drwxr-xr-x 9 eric eric 4096 Sep 5 14:50 old

[Alon Swartz (alonswartz)]

Thanks for reporting the issue Eric. I managed to reproduce it and committed a fix. You can apply it to the current version with the following diff of .bashrc:

- path_dir=$(dirname $PWD)
+ path_dir=$(dirname "$PWD")
     # if our parent dir is a top-level directory, don't mangle it
- if [ $(dirname $path_dir) = "/" ]; then
+ if [ $(dirname "$path_dir") = "/" ]; then
         echo $PWD
     else
         path_parent=$(basename "$path_dir")

[tssgery (eric-aceshome)]

Thanks Alon. The patch seems to have addressed the issue.