Re: Bash unexpected directory prompting

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Eric Blake wrote:

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> According to Bob Friesenhahn on 4/11/2008 9:01 PM:
> | I find that every time bash changes directories to a subdirectory it
> | prints out the new directory path, but it does not print out the
> | directory path after 'cd ..'.  This includes when bash is used to
> | execute scripts and it is not in an interactive mode.
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> What is CDPATH set to?

I have since learned that if CDPATH is set, then the shell prints the 
new path every time the directory path is changed (something I have 
been looking at every day for years).  What does not make sense to me 
is that this happens in non-interactive scripts as well.

Testing with some other shells shows similar behavior.

Bob
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