Ubuntu – Ubuntu 17.04 — bash: cd: too many arguments

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I just upgraded my Ubuntu 16.04 to 17.04 and found a little problem with cd command.

Let's say that I have two folders: album-01 & album-02

In Ubuntu 16.04, if I do cd album* it will go to the first folder found album-01

But in new Ubuntu 17.04, if I do cd album* it result me
-bash: cd: too many arguments

How to make cd in Ubuntu 17.04 like cd in Ubuntu 16.04?

Best Answer

I couldn't test this on a real 17.04 system yet (only verified that it works on 16.04), but you should be able to override the cd Bash built-in command with your own custom function, which discards any additional arguments except the first one:

cd(){ command cd "$1" ; }

Update: As suggested in @muru's comment, this version below might work better and support calling cd without arguments though:

cd(){ builtin cd "${@:1:1}"; }

After you have entered this line above in your terminal, please verify whether cd now behaves in the way you want. If this is the case, you can make this function definition persistent by appending that line to the end of your ~/.bashrc file. Otherwise it will vanish as soon as you end your current shell session.

Note that if for whatever reason you temporarily need to use the real cd Bash built-in command instead of this custom function, you can simply call it with command cd instead of plain cd.

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