On 10/1/07, Valkanas Nikos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The strange thing is that sh is just a link to bash, and starting a bash > subshell works fine. > This is because :
"If bash is invoked with the name sh, it tries to mimic the startup behavior of historical versions of sh as closely as possible, while conforming to the POSIX standard as well". from http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#SEC85 19. If `CDPATH' is set, the `cd' builtin will not implicitly append the current directory to it. This means that `cd' will fail if no valid directory name can be constructed from any of the entries in `$CDPATH', even if the a directory with the same name as the name given as an argument to `cd' exists in the current directory. Pierre
