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Re: CDPATH bug
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: CDPATH bug |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:04:01 -0400 |
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Pierre Gaston wrote:
> I think I did, if bash is invoked as sh, it behaves differently, one
> of these differences is that
> cd will not try to search in you current directory.
> as soon as CDPATH is set, "cd Desktop" will only work if Desktop is in a
> subdir
> of the directories defined in CDPATH and will fail even if Desktop is
> in your current dir.
>
> This behaviour is documented in the reference guide read again my first mail.
>
> It seems that this documented behaviour is a "bug" because POSIX
> doesn't define it this way. I tend to agree with Erik on this point.
I have not made up my mind about it. The bash behavior when invoked
as `sh' (or in posix mode) is the historical sh behavior, and is what
other shells claiming posix compliance (ksh93, dash) or as close as
you can get to a straight-line descendant of the bourne shell (SVR2
sh, SVR3 sh, SVR4.2 sh) do.
Chet
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- CDPATH bug, Valkanas Nikos, 2007/10/01
- Re: CDPATH bug, Pierre Gaston, 2007/10/01
- Re: CDPATH bug, Eric Blake, 2007/10/01
- RE: CDPATH bug, Valkanas Nikos, 2007/10/01
- Re: CDPATH bug, Pierre Gaston, 2007/10/01
- RE: CDPATH bug, Valkanas Nikos, 2007/10/01
- Re: CDPATH bug, Chet Ramey, 2007/10/01
- RE: CDPATH bug, Valkanas Nikos, 2007/10/02
- Re: CDPATH bug,
Chet Ramey <=
- RE: CDPATH bug, Valkanas Nikos, 2007/10/02
- Re: CDPATH bug, Pierre Gaston, 2007/10/02
- RE: CDPATH bug, Valkanas Nikos, 2007/10/02
- Re: CDPATH bug, Chet Ramey, 2007/10/02
- Re: CDPATH bug, Chet Ramey, 2007/10/02