Re: Bugreport: mkdir under Gnu linux (SuSE)

[Paul Eggert]

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.