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Re: Strange cd/CDPATH behavior
- To: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>, <kulack at us dot ibm dot com>
- Subject: Re: Strange cd/CDPATH behavior
- From: "Erik Nolte" <enolte at campuspipeline dot com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:26:20 -0600
- Cc: <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <20000926181915.7663.qmail@web118.yahoomail.com>
> I can successfully `cd c:/temp' from the bash prompt so that itself
> isn't a problem. You mention that you have CDPATH set, what is it set to?
If
> CDPATH itself contains a ":" character it is used as a list separator, so
DOS
> paths can't exist in CDPATH unless the "\" quoting character precedes the
":".
I have a CDPATH of UNIX-style directories:
.:/w//src/com/pipeline:/w/:/w//src:/w//docs:/w//src/html:/w//src/com/pipelin
e/ab
m:/w//src/com/pipeline/ad:/w//src/com/pipeline/addrbk:/w//src/com/pipeline/a
dmin
:/w//src/com/pipeline/aio:/w//src/com/pipeline/alert:/w//src/com/pipeline/ap
plic
ations:/w//src/com/pipeline/awt:/w//src/com/pipeline/bom
B20.1 must have recognized that w:/ is an absolute path while 1.1.4 doesn't
think so. And somehow "." in CDPATH triggers the problem.
Try this:
export CDPATH=/c:/d
cd d:/
<you should just see the command prompt>
then try:
export CDPATH=/c:/d:.
cd d:/
<you should see "d:" and then the command prompt on the next line>
The question is why does adding "." to CDPATH cause "d:/" to be interpreted
as a relative path?
- Erik
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