Tatavarty Kalyan wrote: > I see the same behaviour as posted above. > > # mkdir =foo =foobar > # cd =\=foo > -bash: cd: ==foo: No such file or directory
This is part of the bash_completion extensions. I forget now but I remember at one time thinking I understood the issues. It is related to it confusing the = with thinking it is a variable assignment and trying to expand a null variable. Or something. You will see the same problem in other ways with other characters such as : which is a path separator. The workaround is to know that = and : are special to bash_completion and to escape them first. This is really not more difficult than remembering that shell metacharacters need to be quoted. cd \=foo cd \:foo This is why bash_completion is optional. It is not perfect. But it is too nice to live without for me. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
