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 Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.1.20040929100541.02841230@mail.ros.com.au> X-Sender: errol@mail.ros.com.au (Unverified) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:08:17 +1000 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Errol Smith Subject: Re: "which" command does not expand "~" in path (base-files update needed) In-Reply-To: <20040928153144.GM26145@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> 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"; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes At 01:31 AM 29/09/2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > # Set MANPATH so it includes users' private man if it exists > > # if [ -d ~/man ]; then > >-# MANPATH="~/man:${MANPATH}" > >+# MANPATH="${HOME}/man:${MANPATH}" > > # fi > > > > # Set INFOPATH so it includes users' private info if it exists > > # if [ -d ~/info ]; then > >-# INFOPATH="~/info:${INFOPATH}" > >+# INFOPATH="${HOME}/info:${INFOPATH}" > > # fi > >I don't know if man or info deal properly with ~ but neither of the >above should cause a problem for which. I realise they don't affect "which", but I was assuming they might affect man and/or info. See Igors message (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg01565.html) which seems to confirm my suspicions. Also, it was simply for consistency (no point doing an assignment one way on one line & another way on another without a good reason). E -- 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/