-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Dave Korn on 8/23/2006 8:44 AM: > > 19. If `CDPATH' is set, the `cd' builtin will not implicitly append > the current directory to it. This means that `cd' will fail if no > valid directory name can be constructed from any of the entries in > `$CDPATH', even if the a directory with the same name as the name > given as an argument to `cd' exists in the current directory.
Which by my reading of POSIX is a bug in bash; POSIX requires cd to implicitly consider . after exhausting CDPATH. But to date, my pleas upstream to get this fixed have fallen on deaf ears. So in the meantime, I always make sure that my CDPATH ends in a colon. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteer cygwin bash maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE7IY384KuGfSFAYARAmY6AKCqh3Wf9zz3n08Tf8lBEP+nH7qu2QCaAzPq 06C7/zZiB5dvX16Y1ws7mxI= =mb81 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
