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Re: CDPATH reports to stdout and even non-interactively
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Eric Blake |
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Re: CDPATH reports to stdout and even non-interactively |
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Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:51:39 -0600 |
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According to Chet Ramey on 8/15/2008 3:14 PM:
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> 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.
And in general, it is a bad idea to export CDPATH. Using it in
interactive shells as a non-environment shell variable is fine, but
exporting it affects non-interactive shells.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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