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From: Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: cd "" foo bug?
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:41:14 +0000
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On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:45:26 +0100
Dominik Vogt <vogt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >       cd -- $dir
> 
> How is this supposed to work?  The manual does not mention "--":

You're correct that cd is funny with options, no doubt partly because of
-<NUM>, so you can forget the "--".  Yes, I think directories beginning
with "-" are intrinsically somewhat inconsistently handled in the
builtin (and presumably always have been).

pws

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