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From: jl42+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: re: "cd path" strangeness
Message-ID: <8Wh1Nyy00VoDI6mFk3@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 88 17:53:02 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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I tried Chip Salzenberger's "cd path" command on Berkeley Unix 4.3 and
on CMU Mach 4.3, and got the same strangeness he described;
So, I looked at "man csh" and found:
(reproduced without permission from csh.1, CMU mach 4.3)

>cd
>cd name
>chdir
>chdir name
> Change the shell's working directory to directory "name".
> If no argument is given then change to the home directory of
> the user.
> If "name" is not found as a subdirectory of the current directory
> (and does not begin with `/', `./' or `../'), then each component
> of the variable "cdpath" is checked to see if it has a subdirectory
> "name". Finally, if all else fails but "name" is a shell variable
> whose value begins with `/', then this is tried to see if it is a
> directory.

That last item, "if all else fails but "name" is a shell variable"...
Well, most of us have "path" set to something beginning with a /
right? There you go....

This is NOT a bug :-)

Jay Libove
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