On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Marc Herbert wrote: > Le 08/04/2010 22:58, Peng Yu a ?crit : > > I make the following directory and try to cd to it. But I can't. Could > > you let me know what is the correct way of doing so? > > > > $ mkdir environment\<\- > > $ cd environmen\<\- > > -bash: cd: environmen<-: No such file or directory > > In such situations I find completion (TAB) really great since it does > the hard quoting work for you (and does no typo).
That, or up-arrow (or Ctrl-P) to recall previous command. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
