On 9/14/16 6:01 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 46
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> Many built-in commands ignore trailing garbage instead of giving
> a syntax error, and this leads newbies into making dumb mistakes
> that they think work fine because of no error message, e.g.:
Shells haven't really ever done this, back to the Bourne shell, though
some (ksh93, mksh) do display an error on too many arguments to `cd'.
I'll take this into consideration for a future version.
Chet
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