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From: andrewt@WATSNEW.WATERLOO.EDU (Andrew Thomas)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Order of operations for cdpath checking
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Date: 14 Jun 89 19:49:48 GMT
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I am using bash 0.99 on a uVax II running Ultrix 2.0:

in the following conditions:
- there exists a directory /tmp/docs
- there exists another dir /tmp/docs/docs
- my pwd is /tmp/docs
- my CDPATH = /tmp/

if I type
	bash> cd docs
I end up in /tmp/docs,  not /tmp/docs/docs.  Basically, bash is
checking the directories in CDPATH before my current directory.  Is
this intentional?  This can be avoided by setting CDPATH to ./:/tmp/
but it forces this to be a conscious decision.  tcsh uses cdpath as a
list of directories to be searched only if the directory is not found
in the pwd.  Bash's behaviour is more general, but provides a trap for
novice users, or people coming from tcsh-like shells.

Andrew Thomas
andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu	Systems Design Eng.	University of Waterloo
"If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus