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.