question about cd command

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I am a beginner in unix and need to work on a new unix server. When I tried cd by using the following command, it didn't work:

$ cd  /web/tariffs/tbcc

and it returned me an error log like this:

ksh: /web/r^?tariffs/tbcc:  not found.

But if I did it one folder at a time, it works

$ cd /web
$ cd tariffs
$ cd tbcc
$ pwd
/web/tariffs/tbcc

Can anyone explain why the first cd command doesn't work?

2

Were you copy-pasting the first one by any chance? There look to be odd non-printing characters embedded in the middle of it.

It ought to work when there's no junk characters in it.

3

I think I know what happens but still don't understand what the exact cause. When I typed /web/tariffs/tbcc using putty.exe. I made a typo then used Backspace to overwrite it. Somehow the unix server doesn't like that and return an error. Do you know why unix doesn't like Backspace? Anyway to avoid that?

4

PUTTY and your server disagree on what a backspace is.

This isn't a "UNIX thing", this is actually very unusual these days. What kind of system do you have?

5

That may be putty.exe and not unix.
Have you tried Ctrl+backspace in putty?

6

please post output of

echo $TERM
stty
7

Thanks frank rizzo. Here is my output:

$ echo $TERM
xterm
$ stty
speed 9600 baud; -parity
eol = <undef>; eol2 = <undef>
brkint -inpck -istrip icrnl -ixany onlcr tab3
echo -echoe -echok