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Re: How cd to a directory with special characters like environment\<\-?


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: How cd to a directory with special characters like environment\<\-?
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:13:26 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i

On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 11:59:20AM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Marc Herbert wrote:
> > Le 08/04/2010 22:58, Peng Yu a ?crit :

> > > $ mkdir environment\<\-
> > > $ cd environmen\<\-
> > > -bash: cd: environmen<-: No such file or directory

> > In such situations I find completion (TAB) really great since it does
> > the hard quoting work for you (and does no typo).

>    That, or up-arrow (or Ctrl-P) to recall previous command.

As long as we're being exhaustively thorough...

... or  cd "$_"  to reuse the last word of the previous command.
... or  cd !$    to reuse the last word in csh-style history expansion.

Personally, I disable csh-style history expansion, though.




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