On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 05:55:54PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * Serafeim Zanikolas [100328 15:47 +0200]
> > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 02:54:51PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > > Try
> > > $ cd /tmp && LC_ALL=C ripit -o $PWD --nointeraction
> >
> > I fail to see how's that related to relative pathnames, which is what this
> > bug
> > report is about. AFAICS $PWD is always set to an absolute path, so the above
> > command will obviously work (same goes for ``-o $(pwd)''
>
> $PWD points always to . (dot). The . isn't acceptet by ripit. See
> [0].
I'm not following. $PWD is always set by ``cd'' to the current directory, as
an absolute value.
$ cd /tmp/ && echo $PWD
/tmp
When a program advertises that a command line switch accepts a path, it is
assumed that such a path may be specified either as an absolute path (one
starting with a forward slash), or as value that is relative to the current
directory (one starting with a dot).
Saying that ripit doesn't support relative directories, doesn't make it less
of a bug.
You may close this bug, you may document the fact in the manpage, but until
the bug is fixed, you'll keep getting bug reports like this one :)
Cheers,
Serafeim
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