Thanks. If I understand correctly you will follow up on this. Just to stress, this is not some "perk". It took me a while to figure out that CDPATH was the culprit, and not been able to use make has been a major headache, since I am using gentoo.
Nikos Valkanas Billing Services Technology & Operations Tel: +30 213 000 4087 hellas online Adrianiou 2, 11525 Athens, www.hol.gr IMPORTANT NOTICE: This email and any of its attachments and information contained herein are intended only for the recipient(s) named above and are privileged, confidential, protected by law and/or contain trade secrets. Any unauthorized use, e.g. review, printing, copying or distribution by other persons, is prohibited and may constitute a criminal offence. hellas online cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of this message as it may have been transmitted over a public network. P Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail -----Original Message----- From: Pierre Gaston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 4:22 PM To: Valkanas Nikos Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org Subject: Re: CDPATH bug On 10/1/07, Valkanas Nikos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Pierre, > > I am afraid you didn't understand my problem. 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. Now the sh, I have around me now behave like bash (ash, solaris' /bin/sh and /usr/xgp4/bin/sh) Pierre
