On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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.
Same here. I want printable characters to appear on my screen when I type them. Anything else is ^&#...@-*&! In my .bashrc: histchars= -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
