On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 14:42:23 -0400 "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote: > On Tue, June 3, 2014 12:37, Stephen Harris wrote: > > The OP likely has a function called "cd" which does other stuff (sets > > the prompt?) and then calls the builtin cd, but its not quoting the > > variables properly and so breaking. > > > hll-m22:~ byrnejb$ alias > alias ..='cd ..' > alias ...='cd ../..' > alias copy='cp -i' > alias cp='cp -i' > alias etl='~/projects/proforma.git/vendor/plugins/activewarehouse-etl/bin/etl' > alias la='ls -la' > alias ll='ls -l' > alias mate='gvim -c NERDTree' > alias mc='mc -c' > alias mcd='mount /mnt/cdrom' > alias rm='rm -i' > alias search='grep' > alias ucd='umount /mnt/cdrom' > $ unalias cd > -bash: unalias: cd: not found > Try with backslash: \cd ... BR, Bob