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From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: cd *
Date: 23 Feb 2001 12:26:23 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7

$ cd /tmp /var
$ echo $?
0
$ pwd
/tmp
$ cd --help
bash: cd: illegal option: --
cd: usage: cd [-PL] [dir]

Observations: 1. bash doesn't feel bad about more than one argument to
cd.  2. --help should be implemented.  3. -P, -L should be explained,
lest one need to wait for the whole bash manual to pop up.  Wait,
before any, um, excuses are made, shouldn't any of this behaviour
produce even one warning message about multiple arguments?:

$ cd /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk
$ ls
alsa/   cdrom/  ipv4/  modules.dep     net/     scsi/
block/  fs/     misc/  modules.pcimap  pcmcia/  usb/
$ cd *
$ pwd
/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa
$ cd *
bash: cd: snd-ac97-codec.o: Not a directory
[caught only due to it coming first in expansion]
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