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From: bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox)
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Subject: Flurry of `file not found' messages.
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Date: 10 Jul 89 19:25:08 GMT
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   Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 14:59:59 -0400
   From: romine@xagsun.epm.ornl.gov

   I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I dislike the flurry
   of `file not found' messages that are produced when CDPATH is non-null
   and an attempt is made to change to a nonexistent directory.  The fix is
   to delete the call to file_error at line 920 of builtins.c (bash-1.02).
   I fixed the same behavior in versions 0.99 and 1.01.

					   Chuck Romine
					   romine@msr.epm.ornl.gov

   P.S.  I have not mentioned machine/OS configurations, since this is not a
   machine-dependent phenomenon.  It's evidently intentional.


I don't get a "flurry of file not found" messages.  I only get one.
Please send your environment, and a recipe with a bug report of this
type.  It would help, for example, to know what the value of CDPATH is,
and if you have "cd" aliased or written as a function, or are using the
simple builtin.

bfox@aurel$ CDPATH=.:/usr/gnu/src:/usr/gnu:/usr/bin:/usr/src/XV11R3
bfox@aurel$ cd goodfkldfk
goodfkldfk: No such file or directory
bfox@aurel$ CDPATH=/usr/gnu/src:/usr/gnu:/usr/bin:/usr/src/XV11R3:.
bfox@aurel$ cd sldflksdf
sldflksdf: No such file or directory
bfox@aurel$