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fortune!rpw3    Mar  9 20:01:00 1984

No matter what you think of this "feature", the automatic dereferencing
of shell variables in the context of a 'cd' command is at least documented,
as the following edited excerpt from the man page shows:

	+--------------------
	| cd
	| cd name
	|   Change the shells working directory to directory name.
	|   If no argument is given then change to the home direc-
	|   tory of the user.
	|   If name is not found as a subdirectory of the current
	|   directory (and does not begin with `/', `./' or `../'),
	|   then each component of the variable cdpath is checked
	|   to see if it has a subdirectory name. Finally, if all
====>	|   else fails but name is a shell variable whose value
	|   begins with `/', then this is tried to see if it is a
	|   directory.
	+--------------------

Rob Warnock

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