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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.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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