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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:21:06 -0500
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "which" command does not expand "~" in path (base-files update needed)
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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 ;-)?

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