Re: BASH bug CDPATH plus redirection

[Tim Mooney]

In article <m3ofr9fm3o.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu>,
Paul Jarc <prj@po.cwru.edu> wrote:
> mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu (Tim Mooney) writes:
> > I suggest you set your CDPATH variable in your .profile or .bash_profile,
> > and not export it.
> 
> Then it would be set for login shells, but not other interactive
> shells.  Put it in .bashrc as well for them.

If you do that, you need to be careful to not do

        ENV=$HOME/.bashrc

and instead do

        BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc

in your .profile (or .bash_profile, or whatever).  The reason is that
modern shells honor ENV, and will happily read what ENV points to when
starting a script or subshell.  That effectively undoes what the workaround
I suggested is trying to do: don't have CDPATH in the environment for
scripts.

Tim
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