Re: `pushd DIR' fails when DIR starts with "-"

[Chet Ramey]

> Bash Version: 3.0
> Patch Level: 13
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 
> `pushd DIR' fails to work if DIR starts with a hyphen.
> Using `pushd -- DIR' does not help.

Thanks for the report.

The first check for `--' is not superfluous; it exists to make `pushd --'
and `pushd' equivalent, which is clumsy to do with the existing options
loop.

I have fixed the problem, but you can easily work around it by using
`pushd ./-foo'.

Chet

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