cd =

[JohnQSmith]

I mistyped

cd -

as

cd =

and it changed directory to root (C:\).
Wazapwidat?

 

[JohnQSmith]

Looks to be related to extended search since I got

12:05:34 $ *cd /n =
TCC: (Sys) The system cannot find the path specified.
"="

Edit1:
but continuing on

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]

I mistyped

cd -

as

cd =

and it changed directory to root (C:\).
Wazapwidat?

Not reproducible here. What are your fuzzy search options? Are you using Everything Search?

Is this v14 or v15 (or both)? x86 or x64?

 

[JohnQSmith]

What are your fuzzy search options? Are you using Everything Search? Is this v14 or v15 (or both)? x86 or x64?

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

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]
Copyright 2013 JP Software Inc.  All Rights Reserved
Your evaluation period expires in 13 days.
You can buy Take Command at http://jpsoft.com
 
[C:\Documents and Settings\qcmsb0]
09:47:47 $ plugin /u *
 
[C:\Documents and Settings\qcmsb0]
09:48:01 $ *cd =
 
[C:\]
09:48:05 $

 

[Steve Fabian]

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]

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.

 

[JohnQSmith]

In my situation, I found it by accident. Just reporting unexpected behavior so it doesn't bite somebody in the ass.