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Re: cd --
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: cd -- |
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Thu, 8 Mar 2001 16:23:29 -0500 |
> 1/tmp$ cd
> 0jidanni$ cd -
> /tmp
> 0/tmp$ cd --
> 0jidanni$ cd ---
> bash: cd: illegal option: --
> cd: usage: cd [-PL] [dir]
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> I didn't know cd -- is legal. It doesn't report the new directory, by
> the way.
`--' signals the end of options. `cd --' is equivalent to `cd'.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)
Chet Ramey, CWRU chet@po.CWRU.Edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
- cd --, Dan Jacobson, 2001/03/08