Re: minor bash man page "cd -" annoyance

[Steven W. Orr]

On 7/26/2011 10:45 PM, Jason Quinn wrote:
> In the bash man page's section for "cd" it says
>
> An argument of - is equivalent to $OLDPWD. If a non-empty directory
> name from CDPATH is used, or if -
> is the first argument, and the directory change is successful, the
> absolute pathname of the new working directory
> is written to the standard output.
>
> The first sentence is potentially confusing as "cd -" is not 100%
> equivalent to "cd $OLDPWD". I would word
> the above as
>
> If a non-empty directory name from CDPATH is used, or if - is the
> first argument, and the directory change is
> successful, the absolute pathname of the new working directory is
> written to the standard output. An argument
> of - is otherwise equivalent to $OLDPWD.
>
> Jason

I'd like to pile on to this one. The pushd command should probably refer to 
the fact that the directory argument is the same as the cd command and honors 
CDPATH and -. There currently is no mention.

Two other nits:

Nit A) The cd command (and pushd) do not complain when you give them too many 
arguments. (I have been bitten by this because of typos that did not generate 
complaints.)

Nit ii) The popd command also does not complain if you give it a filename.

Am I being too nit picky.

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