Bug 122108

Summary:	Bash problem with cd
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	John Rigsby <rigsbyjt>
Component:	setup	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description John Rigsby 2004-04-30 15:37:36 UTC

Description of problem:
A directory called \ causes bash to hang up
It doesnt hang up tcsh

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible: It does this on my machine.  I got a friend to try
it out and it did the same thing on his machine

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mkdir /tmp/bug
2. cd /tmp/bug
3. mkdir \\
4. cd \\

Actual results: shell hangs up

Expected results: should be able to cd into the directory

Additional info:

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2004-04-30 15:48:01 UTC

This comes from the PROMPT_COMMAND environment variable, defined in
/etc/bashrc.  You can work around it with 'unset PROMPT_COMMAND'.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2004-09-23 05:45:18 UTC

This seems to work for me in current releases.