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Re: How cd to a directory with special characters like environment\<\-?
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: How cd to a directory with special characters like environment\<\-? |
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Fri, 9 Apr 2010 12:13:26 -0400 |
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On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 11:59:20AM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Marc Herbert wrote:
> > Le 08/04/2010 22:58, Peng Yu a ?crit :
> > > $ mkdir environment\<\-
> > > $ cd environmen\<\-
> > > -bash: cd: environmen<-: No such file or directory
> > 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.
As long as we're being exhaustively thorough...
... or cd "$_" to reuse the last word of the previous command.
... or cd !$ to reuse the last word in csh-style history expansion.
Personally, I disable csh-style history expansion, though.