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From: lvc@cbnews.att.com (lawrence.v.cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: ksh's cd tries to do too much
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.151308.8705@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 22 Mar 91 15:13:08 GMT
References: <3604@risky.Convergent.COM>
Organization: Ideology Busters, Inc.
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In article <3604@risky.Convergent.COM> chrisb@risky.Convergent.COM (Chris Bertin) writes:
>Ksh does some pre-parsing on the argument to 'cd'. It removes from the
>argument all the '..' and the name before the '..' (for optimization, I
>guess):

What version of ksh are you running?  This was removed; it is not present
in ksh88f:

	$ cd
	$ mkdir -p $HOME/x/y
	$ CDPATH=:$HOME/x
	$ cd y/..
	$ pwd
	/usr6/lvc/x

Ksh will do a CDPATH search even if there are /'s in the path given to cd
and it will not do any sort of pre-parsing now.
-- 
Larry Cipriani, att!cbvox!lvc or lvc@cbvox.att.com
"Fight fire with fire, I always say" -- Bugs Bunny