[NTLUG:Discuss] Is this the way it's supposed to work?

[Eric Waguespack]

>> (BTW, I'm running SuSE 10.3.)  Given a directory with the following
>> subdirectories (others removed for brevity):
>>
>>     Desktop
>>     Documents
>>
>> Doing
>>     cd De*
>> puts me in the Desktop subdirectory.  At this point doing
>>     cd ../Do*
>> puts me in the Documents directory.  Next, doing
>>     cd D*
>> puts me in the Desktop subdirectory.
>


The glob (*) expands into ('Desktop', 'Documents') before `cd` sees
it, `cd` only accepts one directory as an argument, namely the first,
in this case "Desktop".