Typing "cd" all by itself always takes you to your home directory. I
use it all the time to get back home.
Putting a -- usually signals to a program that you have put your last
option and the next item(s) will be a file or something else
"non-optiony". That allows you to do stuff like:
mkdir -- -test
ls -d -- -test
rmdir -- -test
All of the above commands would fail if you removed the -- because they
would interpret the -test as a(n) option(s).
Anyway, by putting in cd --, all the system saw was cd all by itself
because there wasn't anything after the --
Brian Cluff
On 07/28/2014 01:26 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
I was trying to co up a level with 'cd ..', I messed up and typed in 'cd
--'. what it appeared to do is take me to my home directory. I'm kind of
afraid to do anything because I don't know what happened. ohhhh I think
I know... '--' is an option statement and so not putting the option ii
is like just saying 'cp'. Thanks for listening..... this has been a
public service announcement.
:-)~MIKE~(-:
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