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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Soren Roth <sorenoid@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: cannot `cd $_` to $_ containing spaces
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:25:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMrws-m2pFP4Dg7BpfQ3vYrGnJNa12T4SvffbF4rgxhfyQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA0W15K=fUvCSabfCADVnp7Gr9P4awsC2KdhjV67K1viDE_nmQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 9:31 PM Soren Roth <sorenoid@gmail.com> wrote:
> I made a directory with a space in the name, and tried to cd into it using $_, and failed.

You probably have the SH_WORD_SPLIT option enabled. This option causes
field splitting to be performed on unquoted parameter expansions, like
in POSIX sh. You can turn it off by adding `unsetopt SH_WORD_SPLIT` to
~/.zshrc. Otherwise you need to quote parameter expansions to prevent
field splitting (again, like in POSIX sh).

    cd "$_"

Roman.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-14  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-13 19:30 Soren Roth
2020-10-13 19:47 ` Matthew Martin
2020-10-14  7:25 ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]
2020-10-14 20:49   ` Daniel Shahaf

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