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RE: cd problems
From: |
Luke Scharf |
Subject: |
RE: cd problems |
Date: |
02 Apr 2003 13:37:56 -0500 |
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 13:03, Julian DeMarchi wrote:
> |> On the topic you raise, though, watch out for backslashes native to
> |> Windows. For example (for reasons I do not know), if you were to type
> |>
> |> cd \
> |>
> |
> |If you type "cd \" and press enter twice, you will execute the
> |command "cd" with no arguments and return to a normal prompt.
>
> Hmm. I hit Enter several times without success. ^c, ^d, and ^z also
> didn't work.
It works both on my cygwin machine and on my Linux machine. What shell
are you running? Both of the machines I tried this on are using bash.
The command "echo $SHELL" will tell you what shell you're running.
Thanks,
-Luke
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