pushd doesn't play nicely with spaces

[Douglas Lewan]

The bash built-in pushd doesn't seem to be able to handle spaces well in 
directory names. It goes into an infinite loop with lots of errors. 
(Perhaps not infinite, but I'm never patient enough to wait.)

A common circumstance is when I receive archives from my friends who use 
Windows. Such archives very often have New Folder as the top folder, and 
pushd never handles that nicely.

What can I do to avoid this? Killing the shell loses command and 
directory history, which renders both bash and pushd useless.

Thanks.

--
,Doug

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