dpkg problems

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 08:25:37PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt said:
> On Jan 15, 2009, at 18:34, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>
>> At least in my bash:
>>
>> $ cd /*
>> -bash: cd: /Applications /Desktop DB /Desktop DF /Developer /Library
>> /Network /System /Users /Volumes /bin /cores /dev /etc /home / 
>> mach_kernel
>> /mach_kernel.ctfsys /mp /net /opt /private /sbin /tmp /usr /var: No  
>> such
>> file or directory
>>
>> hence my thinking it'd be an error...maybe some shells just ignore  
>> later
>> arguments?
>
> How odd -- I can't make bash do that on any of my systems. I've tried the 
> bash that comes with Tiger, the one that comes with Leopard, and I've 
> tried installing the bash port. They all just try to cd to the first 
> argument.
>
> Maybe there's a setting that influences this that you have set?

Ah, of course; I have cd aliased to set the window title...clearing that I
do see /* sets cwd to /Applications.  Configurability is fun.

Bryan