Re: inconsistent output for cd

2007-04-03 Thread Tony Balinski
Quoting Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Chet Ramey wrote: > > > > It is an interesting position for POSIX to take, given that in general > > Unix is silent on success. > > It's the logical thing to do, considering the potential ambiguity that > exists when you use a directo

Re: how does bash parse back-ticks, anyway?

2007-04-03 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Eric Blake wrote: According to Matthew Woehlke on 4/2/2007 5:09 PM: If nothing else, I'll stand by it being a bash bug, if only in the docs because they are not sufficiently clear. :-) The POSIX rules here are [snip] Ok, but the man page is still unclear. :-) (Sigh. Curse Solaris and their

Re: inconsistent output for cd

2007-04-03 Thread Chet Ramey
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Chet Ramey wrote: > > > > [...] and there appear to > > > be no options at all to turn this superfluous output off. > > > > This is, as Eric Blake noted, required POSIX behavior. As to the manual: > > It is an interesting position for POSIX to take, given that in g

Re: inconsistent output for cd

2007-04-03 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Chet Ramey wrote: > > [...] and there appear to > > be no options at all to turn this superfluous output off. > > This is, as Eric Blake noted, required POSIX behavior. As to the manual: It is an interesting position for POSIX to take, given that in general Unix is s

Re: inconsistent output for cd

2007-04-03 Thread Chet Ramey
> Bash Version: 3.2 > Patch Level: 15 > Release Status: release > > It seems like this extra output only occurs when CDPATH is used for the > cd operation. Also, popd and pushd also have similarly inconvenient > outputs. None of this is documented in the manual, and there appear to >

Re: inconsistent output for cd

2007-04-03 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tony Balinski on 4/2/2007 9:01 AM: > It seems like this extra output only occurs when CDPATH is used for the > cd operation. Also, popd and pushd also have similarly inconvenient > outputs. None of this is documented in the man