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Re: cd's Extraneous Arguments.
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: cd's Extraneous Arguments. |
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Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:21:06 -0400 |
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On 4/15/16 8:22 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi,
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> 4.3.42(1)-release
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> `cd foo bar xyzzy' changes directory to foo, complaining if it doesn't
> exist. It doesn't complain about the unwanted extra arguments. This
> can cause problems; `cd *04' ends up in 2015-04, not 2016-04.
If you want this behavior, you can build bash with CD_COMPLAINS defined
(adding it to CFLAGS is the easiest way).
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