Sorry for butting in. Considering that "Desktop" is a valid subdir is it normal behavior in *any* shell to get:
DrWho:~-> cd Desktop sh: cd: Desktop: No such file or directory Which shell behaves like that? Even if one would argue that CDPATH should not be set in sh, normal shell behaviour dictates to ignore any variables it doesn't handle. Handling a variable it shouldn't is one mistake. Handling it wrongly is a second one. Regards, 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: Chet Ramey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 5:04 AM To: Pierre Gaston Cc: Valkanas Nikos; bug-bash@gnu.org Subject: Re: CDPATH bug 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 -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
