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Re: How cd to a directory with special characters like environment\<\-?
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Chris F.A. Johnson |
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Re: How cd to a directory with special characters like environment\<\-? |
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Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:59:20 -0400 (EDT) |
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Alpine 2.00 (LMD 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Marc Herbert wrote:
> Le 08/04/2010 22:58, Peng Yu a ?crit :
> > I make the following directory and try to cd to it. But I can't. Could
> > you let me know what is the correct way of doing so?
> >
> > $ mkdir environment\<\-
> > $ cd environmen\<\-
> > -bash: cd: environmen<-: No such file or directory
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> In such situations I find completion (TAB) really great since it does
> the hard quoting work for you (and does no typo).
That, or up-arrow (or Ctrl-P) to recall previous command.
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