Re: CDPATH reports to stdout and even non-interactively

[Chet Ramey]

geoff@cs.hmc.edu wrote:

> Bash Version: 3.2
> Patch Level: 25
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>         If CDPATH is set, whenever bash changes directories to a
>         non-absolute path it reports the new directory to stdout.
>         This is done even if bash is running in non-interactive mode,
>         such as in a script.  That breaks scripts that do things like
>         this:

This is the behavior that Posix requires:  when CDPATH is used, bash
outputs the name of the new working directory to stdout.  Commands
and shell functions need to take this into account.

Chet
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