cd `bd p` from the examples does not work for me

[fethomm]

bd works fine for me on debian unstable other than cd bd p from the examples. It gives me this error: devil@siductionbox:~/work/Linux-User/CD-Helferlein/Screenies$ cd bd p /Todo (where ToDo is a sub-dir of work) bash: cd: Zu viele Argumente. which translates to: bash: cd: too many arguments

Any idea what might be the reason for that? Let me know if you need any more info

[rautamiekka]

It's simpler than it looks: you're introducing a syntax error, and given you're not using the GitHub code tag correctly it makes it even more confusing.

Run this:

cd `bd p`/Todo

, not this:

cd `bd p` /Todo

Or better yet, run this:

cd $(bd p)/Todo

, but it could be specific to Bash (Bourne Again Shell).

[fethomm]

Thanks for coming back to me so quickly. I tried your 2 commands and they give me the same output as before:

devil@siductionbox:~/work/Linux-User/CD-Helferlein/Screenies$ cd $(bd p)/Todo bash: cd: Zu viele Argumente. devil@siductionbox:~/work/Linux-User/CD-Helferlein/Screenies$ cd bd p /Todo bash: cd: Zu viele Argumente.

Jouni Järvinen [email protected] hat am 12. August 2017 um 20:58 geschrieben:

It's simpler than it looks: you're introducing a syntax error, and given you're not using the GitHub code tag correctly it makes it even more confusing.

Run this:

cd `bd p`/Todo

, not this:

cd `bd p` /Todo

Or better yet, run this:

cd $(bd p)/Todo

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[rautamiekka]

devil@siductionbox:~/work/Linux-User/CD-Helferlein/Screenies$ cd bd p /Todo

You're still adding a space before the slash, which is a syntax error in this case.

Anyway, getting 'Too many arguments' means you're providing more than 1 target folders. Run echo $(bd p)/Todo and show the output.

[fethomm]

Actualy the name is ToDo, but that does not work either.

devil@siductionbox:~/work/Linux-User/CD-Helferlein/Screenies$ echo $(bd p)/ToDo No such occurrence./ToDo devil@siductionbox:~/work/Linux-User/CD-Helferlein/Screenies$ cd ../../../ devil@siductionbox:~/work$ ls Charleston Golem jhr.asc LinuxCon Linux-User mikap_buch.txt.tar.gz notebook.zim Pro-Linux Sync ToDo.txt Desktop Home Joomla-Doc Linux Magazin mikap_buch.txt nixCraft PC-Mag%2fLinixLife Pro-Linux.txt ToDo XModulo

So ToDo does exist in work. No idea what is wrong here.

Jouni Järvinen [email protected] hat am 12. August 2017 um 21:57 geschrieben:

devil@siductionbox:~/work/Linux-User/CD-Helferlein/Screenies$ cd bd p /Todo

You're still adding a space before the slash, which is a syntax error in this case.

Anyway, getting 'Too many arguments' means you're providing more than 1 target folders. Run echo $(bd p)/Todo and show the output.

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