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Re: cd with multiple arguments?
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Eric Blake |
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Re: cd with multiple arguments? |
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Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:30:56 -0700 |
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On 09/23/2010 10:47 AM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> I'm not sure whether this is a bug (the documentation doesn't address
> this case), but it's at least mildly annoying.
>
> If you invoke the "cd" commands with extra arguments after the directory
> name, all the extra arguments are silently ignored.
I would really love it if bash copied the zsh behavior here:
cd a b
tries to find a directory matching the extglob
a+([$' \t'])b
and fails if there are multiple matches or no matches. Certainly less
typing than remembering to quote the argument, via cd 'a b'.
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Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682
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