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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: cd x x.something
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 22:05:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81bcd9f4-9ba0-07cd-48fd-506b090fa0e6@tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <170926204753.ZM17338@torch.brasslantern.com>

On 09/26/2017 09:47 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> No, there's nothing special here.  The value of $PWD is a full path, to
> which you are appending ".wtf".

*facePalm*

I completely missed that simple low hanging fruit.

I'm done for the day.

/me turns and hollers "Check please."

> Yes, but you could also do "cd dev/shm tmp" and it would try to change
> to /tmp/omg.  It's only "lateral" because you happen to be using a
> string that matches only the tail of the path.

Thank you for trying to explain this.  My brain is not accepting it.

I'll get some sleep and (re)read some manuals to try to pick up what I'm 
missing or have forgotten.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die


      reply	other threads:[~2017-09-27  4:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-25  2:19 tuxic
2017-09-25  3:55 ` Amir Ish-Hurwitz
2017-09-25  7:25 ` Dominik Vogt
2017-09-26 18:50 ` Roman Neuhauser
2017-09-26 19:47   ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-26 23:56     ` Roman Neuhauser
2017-09-27  1:23       ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-27  3:47         ` Bart Schaefer
2017-09-27  4:05           ` Grant Taylor [this message]

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