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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:48:45 -0500
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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To: Errol Smith <errol AT ros DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: RE: "which" command does not expand "~" in path
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Errol Smith wrote:

> This is all fine & good, but it doesn't change the fact that the
> cygwin-supplied "which" does NOT work with the cygwin-supplied
> ".bash_profile" (when you use a personal ~/bin directory.).

I'm just curious.  This is from the Solaris 8 man page for which:

DESCRIPTION
[snip]
Both aliases and path are taken from the user's .cshrc file
[snip]
SEE ALSO
csh(1)
[snip]
BUGS
     Only aliases and paths from  ~/.cshrc  are  used;  importing
     from  the current environment is not attempted. Must be exe-
     cuted by csh(1), since only csh knows about aliases.

     To compensate for ~/.cshrc files  in  which  aliases  depend
     upon the prompt variable being set, which sets this variable
     to NULL. If the ~/.cshrc  produces  output  or  prompts  for
     input  when  prompt  is  set, which may produce some strange
     results.

So, is this a Solaris non-compliance issue, or is which not supposed to be
valid under any non-csh derrived shell?

-- 
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot...

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