On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 01:07:34PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > >> Something I have not run into before.
> > >>
> > >> Following a major update still in progress I find the ls command will
> > >> not run on $HOME.
> > >>
> > > By the time the command hits ls itself, the shell has already expanded
> > > the HOME variable. So it's unlikely to be the command and more something
> > > dodgy with your shell.
> > >
> > > What shell are you using?
> > > What is the output of "echo $HOME"?
> >
> > My shell is xterm... and was just updated to:
> > Wed Oct 27 10:15:06 2010 >>> x11-terms/xterm-262
>
> That's the terminal.
>
> What shell do you use/
>
> > echo $HOME
> > /home/reader
Before we go further, when you said `ls' will not complete against
$HOME, which of the following scenario did you mean?
a) you typed `ls $HOME' as a user (the one I think Alan thinks you
mean)
b) you type `ls' while in your home directory (/home/reader)
c) you typed `ls /home/reader' ?
W
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