Re: can't cd to directory with backslash

[Chet Ramey]

P@draigBrady.com wrote:
> $ rpm -q bash
> bash-3.0-17
> 
> $ mkdir -p 'blah\'
> $ cd 'blah\' #lock up here

There's no bug here.  The cd builtin completes successfully, and
the shell goes to read another line from the terminal.  My guess
is that the backslash at the end of $PWD is messing up an escape
sequence you're sending to the terminal to write to the title bar
or something similar.

Chet


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