Re: flag for quiet CDPATH

[Lionel Cons]

On 21 January 2014 01:16, Elliott Forney <elliott.forney@gmail.com> wrote:
> I find it a little unpleasant that cd echoes the new working directory
> when CDPATH is used to locate the new directory (I already have the
> working directory in my prompt).  I understand that this is behavior
> is mandated by POSIX but I wonder if we could have an option that
> disables this.
>
> Maybe if the `cd' builtin had an option, say `-q', that would cause it
> to be quit if CDPATH is used.  Then, I could simply
>
> alias cd='cd -q'
>
> and put a stop to this.  I have attached a proposed patch, any thoughts?

Yes, adding yet another option which can be implemented using POSIX
behaviour is IMHO code bloat. Just use alias cd='2>"/dev/null" cd '
(yes, POSIX mandates that re-directions can be prefixed and not only
postfixed).

Lionel