Simple Question.....I think?

Simple Question.....I think?

[DPD]

Hello all!

(If you have any flames to send, please send them to my personal 
mailbox ----> /dev/null.  Thanks!)

Now, I am unsuccessfull in trying to 'cd' to a particular 
directory...Yes, I am running the zsh shell.  Version 3.0.0.
I am not sure if this is a shell specific problem...if its not then 
just let me know what this problem may be related to...

Allow me to show you the instances I have come accross thus far:

dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~%
dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~% echo $SHELL
/bin/zsh
dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~%
dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~% ls -dl down*
drwx------   2 domenick sysop        1024 Sep  7 19:00 download/
dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~%
dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~% cd down*
dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~/download%
                                          ^^^^^^^^^
                                      as you can see no
                                      problem here.

dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~/download% cd
dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~%
dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~% ls -dl /usr1/src/zsh*
drwxrwxr-x   9 root     sysop        1024 Oct 15 16:21 /usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0/
-rw-------   1 root     root         2637 Oct 15 15:48 /usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0.log
dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~%
dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~% cd /usr1/src/zsh*
cd: string not in pwd: /usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
What does this mean???  Should I be able to successfully cd to 
'...zsh-3.0.0' the way other shells, like the bash shell at least, 
could??  If so, what option/variable/flag/etc needs to be set??

dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~%

Thanks for your help!

Dom

PS:  Yes I am actively searching through the zsh documentation for 
answers!!!!!!!!

Re: Simple Question.....I think?

[Zefram]

>dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~% ls -dl down*
>drwx------   2 domenick sysop        1024 Sep  7 19:00 download/
>dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~%
>dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~% cd down*
>dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~/download%
>                                          ^^^^^^^^^
>                                      as you can see no
>                                      problem here.

Yes.  `down*' expands to one pathanme, `download', so the command is
effectively `cd download', which works normally.

>dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~% ls -dl /usr1/src/zsh*
>drwxrwxr-x   9 root     sysop        1024 Oct 15 16:21 /usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0/
>-rw-------   1 root     root         2637 Oct 15 15:48 /usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0.log
>dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~%
>dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~% cd /usr1/src/zsh*
>cd: string not in pwd: /usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Here `/usr1/src/zsh*' expands to two pathnames, `/usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0'
and `/usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0.log', making the command `cd
/usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0 /usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0.log'.  cd with two arguments
has a completely different meaning from cd with one argument -- see
zshbuiltins(1).

-zefram

Re: Simple Question.....I think?

[Vincent Lefevre]

DPD writes:
> dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~% ls -dl /usr1/src/zsh*

/usr1/src/zsh* is replaced with /usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0/ /usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0.log
So this is equivalent to:
ls -dl /usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0/ /usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0.log

> drwxrwxr-x   9 root     sysop        1024 Oct 15 16:21 /usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0/
> -rw-------   1 root     root         2637 Oct 15 15:48 /usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0.log
> dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~%
> dpdhost:ttyp2:domenick:~% cd /usr1/src/zsh*

Equivalent to: cd /usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0/ /usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0.log
(The fact that the command is cd has no special effect.)

> cd: string not in pwd: /usr1/src/zsh-3.0.0
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is normal. Look at the man: this is the second form of cd.

> What does this mean???  Should I be able to successfully cd to 
> '...zsh-3.0.0' the way other shells, like the bash shell at least, 
> could??  If so, what option/variable/flag/etc needs to be set??

You should type: cd /usr1/src/zsh*(/)

or better: cd /usr1/src/zsh*(-/)
if you want the symbolic links to be taken into account.

I don't think there is an option so that cd does a cd on the first
argument that is a directory. But you can write a zsh function cd
that behaves like this.

> PS:  Yes I am actively searching through the zsh documentation for 
> answers!!!!!!!!

In the man, look at:
  _ the man of cd, in zshbuiltins;
  _ filename generation (globbing), in zshexpn.

HTH,

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