Set the property `eshell-no-numeric-conversions' on the following functions (which all deal with filesystem entities, and never Lisp numerical values): eshell/cd, eshell/pushd, eshell/popd, eshell/ls, eshell/source, eshell/., eshell/man, eshell/rm, eshell/mkdir, eshell/rmdir, eshell/mv, eshell/cp, eshell/ln, eshell/cat, eshell/make, eshell/diff, eshell/locate, eshell/occur, eshell/which, eshell/addpath.