Powershell: Set-Location -LiteralPath does not treat "-" and "+" as literals.

[kvprasoon]

From great feature, I would say Navigation is impossible to folder named - and +

Set-Location -LiteralPath - as well

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[vexx32]

Surely this is accessible with cd .\- and cd .\+?

[kvprasoon]

@vexx32 But that's not how directory navigation should be.

[vexx32]

That's an opinion, not a fact. And I'm sure folks accustomed to using cd - and cd + on Linux would disagree there. 😄

[kvprasoon]

Cc @SteveL-MSFT , I thought of asking this at your session yesterday @PSConfAsia, but my lappie was not with me...

[rkeithhill]

You have a similar issue with a dir named [foo]. You can cd to it with cd -lp [foo] but the same doesn't work with cd -lp -. I think perhaps that should work in addition to cd .\-.

[vexx32]

Yeah, I'd agree that -LiteralPath should not exhibit the history-navigation behaviour for obvious reasons!

[SteveL-MSFT]

Set-Location -LiteralPath - should treat it as a literal path and not Pop-Location so that is a bug. We can use this issue to track that.