You are right. I am starting to think that /bin/sh implementation is correct and bash implementation is too permissive. If I set CDPATH:
export CDPATH=".:~/work:~/work/HOL" everything will work correctly with all shells, and be much more analogous to PATH. However, the analogy to PATH should not be exact. PATH will not work with an empty PATH, whereas cd should work with empty CDPATH. Maybe bash should be aligned to the other shells (i.e. no cd to a subdir unless "." is part of CDPATH, or CDPATH is not set) 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: Pierre Gaston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:37 AM To: Valkanas Nikos Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org Subject: Re: CDPATH bug On 10/2/07, Valkanas Nikos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? Chet Ramey listed some in his mail, I've tried: ash, ksh93 and pdksh when invoked with the name "sh", /bin/sh and /usr/xpg4/bin/sh under sunOS 5.8 They all behave like bash when started with the name "sh" > Even if one would argue that CDPATH should not be set in sh CDPATH is documented in sh, so there is no reason not to use it, but so far the only "sh" I found that cd to a subdir in the current path when CDPATH is set is zsh when started with the name "sh".
