From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: BUG: cd '' doesn't produce an error
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:21:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051221102159.44d9f5ca.pws@csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zmmvxl3g.fsf@haugen.visit.se>
Ulrik Haugen <qha@lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> I recently discovered that zsh (versions 4.2.5 and 4.3.0-dev-1)
> doesn't produce an error when i attempt to "cd ''" (in version 3.0.8 I
> get the error i expected). Please let me know if you'd like me to test
> any other versions.
It's certainly strange, although it's not wholly illogical with $cdpath: as
the empty string is not an absolute directory nor begins with . or .., the
shell looks through $cdpath for the first directory for which the
concatenation with the empty string exists, which is usually just the first
directory in $cdpath. This is almost useful... It's easy to add an error
but I'm not quite sure at what stage the behaviour actually is an error in
this case: it's a correct, if unexpected, interpretation of the cdpath
rules.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
CSR PLC, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-21 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-21 2:03 Ulrik Haugen
2005-12-21 10:21 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2005-12-30 12:52 ` Ulrik Haugen
2005-12-30 16:28 ` Wayne Davison
2006-01-04 17:32 ` Wayne Davison
2006-01-04 19:48 ` Ulrik Haugen
2006-01-04 11:41 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-01-04 13:06 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-01-04 17:48 ` Peter Stephenson
2006-01-04 22:30 ` Ulrik Haugen
2006-01-05 12:29 ` Peter Stephenson
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