Package: debianutils
Version: 2.17
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hello,
An element like ~/bin in the PATH variable is not searched by which
because the test is [ -f "$ELEMENT/$PROGRAM" ] and there is no tilde
expansion within double quotes.
I propose the attached patch for replacing "~" by "$HOME" when an
element begins with "~/".
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages debianutils depends on:
ii coreutils 5.97-5.3 The GNU core utilities
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii mktemp 1.5-2 Makes unique filenames for tempora
debianutils recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- /bin/which 2006-07-25 20:04:28.000000000 +0200
+++ ./which 2007-02-23 13:57:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@
;;
*)
for ELEMENT in $PATH; do
+ case "$ELEMENT" in
+ "~"/*) ELEMENT="$HOME""${ELEMENT:1}" ;;
+ esac
if [ -z "$ELEMENT" ]; then
ELEMENT=.
fi
