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Date: | Sun, 26 Sep 2004 01:42:17 +1000 |
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From: | Errol Smith <errol AT ros DOT com DOT au> |
Subject: | "which" command does not expand "~" in path |
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If your PATH contains the tilde character (eg. "~/bin:.......") the cygwin version of "which" seems to fail to expand the "~" and will then not locate any commands in ~/bin (or any other directory on the path containing "~" presumably). I'm 99% sure it's cygwin's version of "which" causing the issue, because I compiled the GNU version and it works as expected (2.16 works out of the box with ./configure & make). (incidentally, the cygwin which.exe is about 5k and the gnu one is about 80k!) Testcase: Uncomment the following section in ~/.bash_profile (from /etc/skel/.bash_profile) .... Set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then PATH="~/bin:${PATH}" fi .... Create a ~/bin then copy a command of some kind into it for testing (say "testprogram.exe"), then logout & log in again: > which testprogram testprogram: Command not found. > whichgnu testprogram /cygdrive/d/home/bin/testprogram (whichgnu being the gnu version of "which" in this case) I hope that was a simple enough example. I have reported this before (see http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00546.html ), but I'm trying harder this time :) Regards, Errol -- 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/
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