[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Substring Expansion fails with Debian filemanager gui, run in termin
|
From: |
Chet Ramey |
|
Subject: |
Re: Substring Expansion fails with Debian filemanager gui, run in terminal |
|
Date: |
Sun, 6 Dec 2015 13:54:33 -0500 |
|
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 |
On 12/6/15 11:09 AM, Bruce_Miller wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 42
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>
> If clicking on a functioning command line script from a filemanager gui and
> selecting 'run in terminal' , substring expansions will fail in multiple
> versions of Debian.
The simplest explanation is that the file manager uses /bin/sh instead of
$SHELL to run such commands.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/