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Re: for i in ... doesn't seem to work. bash bug?


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: for i in ... doesn't seem to work. bash bug?
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:26:52 +0100
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daryananin@whitesmiths.com.au (Navin) writes:

|> Hello people 
|> 
|> I am a newbie to linux but am comfortable with some shell programming.
|> 
|> I am using bash-2.05-15mdk and bash-completion-20020115-1 and Mandrake 8.1
|> 
|> This is extract from the _cd() section of the /etc/bash_completion
|> 
|> for i in ${CDPATH//:/ }; do

Check out what IFS is set to prior to this line.  Depending on its value
the expansion of ${CDPATH//:/ } might not be split at the spaces.

Andreas.

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