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Re: cd with multiple arguments?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: cd with multiple arguments? |
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Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:41:04 -0500 |
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On 12/9/10 11:30 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> 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'.
It's trivial to write a shell function to do that, and many other things.
Chet
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