Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:27:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "which" command does not expand "~" in path (base-files update needed) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <6.1.2.0.1.20040929010527.027f4eb0@mail.ros.com.au> <20040928153144.GM26145@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Brian Ford wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Oh, and your suggestion definitely won't work for sh, which also uses > > /etc/profile. IMO, any shell-specific code in /etc/profile should go > > into the shell-specific section of /etc/profile, and the rest of it > > should be Bourne shell compatible. > > Agreed, but aren't we talking about .bash_profile here ;-)? Ugh. Yes. FWIW, /etc/profile does use '~' (in lines 191-195), so the above point is valid anyway (though by chance, rather than by intention)... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/