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I mistyped
as
and it changed directory to root (C:\).
Wazapwidat?
Code:
cd -
Code:
cd =Wazapwidat?
cd =
- Thread starter JohnQSmith
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Looks to be related to extended search since I got
Edit1:
but continuing on
Edit2: Still might be extended search related?
Code:
12:05:34 $ *cd /n =
TCC: (Sys) The system cannot find the path specified.
"="Edit1:
but continuing on
Code:
0:00:00.003
[C:\Documents and Settings\qcmsb0\Desktop\Projects]
12:05:43 $ cd /=
TCC: (Sys) The system cannot find the path specified.
"/="
0:00:00.072
[C:\Documents and Settings\qcmsb0\Desktop\Projects]
12:07:51 $ cd \=
0:00:00.065
[C:\]
12:07:58 $ md =
0:00:00.002
[C:\]
12:08:17 $ cd \=
0:00:00.001
[C:\=]
12:08:19 $ cd ..
0:00:00.001
[C:\]
12:08:28 $ rd =Edit2: Still might be extended search related?
rconn
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Not reproducible here. What are your fuzzy search options? Are you using Everything Search?
Is this v14 or v15 (or both)? x86 or x64?
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Extended Directory Search level 1 with path C:\MyProgramFiles\JPSoft\TCMD15.
No Everything search.
Both 14.03.59 and 15.0.21 on x86 XP SP3.
Here's a fresh run of TCMD
Code:
HTMLDump plugin v1.0.5 loaded.
ISO8601 plugin v1.3.7 loaded.
SafeChars plugin v1.7.0 loaded.
Snapshot v1.0.1 loaded.
TextUtils v0.62.1 loaded.
TCC 15.00.21 Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
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[C:\Documents and Settings\qcmsb0]
09:47:47 $ plugin /u *
[C:\Documents and Settings\qcmsb0]
09:48:01 $ *cd =
[C:\]
09:48:05 $- May
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I have FuzzyCD=3. Same platform, not using Everything. The command *cd = in 15.0.22 pops up a window showing most (or all?) directories in JPSTREE.IDX. However, until I manually enlarged the pop-up height, it only displayed one entry.
rconn
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I traced through the code, and this is an artifact resulting from (1) Windows considering a '=' to be a delimiter / space character, so (2) the wildcard routine (called by the fuzzy searches) considers it to be a terminating character (for example, in an executable extension comparison). So it matches directories with no filename; i.e., root directories.
Modifying this would potentially break a lot of things, so since it's not harmful (and since it's worked this way for at least 15 years without issue) I'm inclined to leave it as-is.
Modifying this would potentially break a lot of things, so since it's not harmful (and since it's worked this way for at least 15 years without issue) I'm inclined to leave it as-is.
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In my situation, I found it by accident. Just reporting unexpected behavior so it doesn't bite somebody in the ass.