Re: Why doesn't cd ignore files when you type say "cd fred*"

[Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>]

zzapper wrote:
> Why doesn't cd ignore files when you type say "cd fred*" and there
> exists a file frederick.txt and a directory frederick ??
> 
> I guess it's becauses the FNG handling  fred* doesn't know that it's
> output is to be passed to cd .

It also doesn't know whether or not you want error checking.

> But can clever zsh be configued to avoid this behaviour.
> 
> Could I tell cd to ignore files ending say .html,.txt etc

Use a wrapper.  It's not 100% accurate in guessing what form of cd you
are using, but it will work the vast majority of the time.

cd() {
  local -a dirs
  local d
  for d in $*; do
    [[ -d $d ]] && dirs=($dirs $d)
  done
  if (( ${#dirs} == 1 )); then
    builtin cd $dirs
  else
    # Assume it's something like e.g. `cd SOURCE REPLACE'
    builtin cd "$@"
  fi
}

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Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
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