"which" command does not expand "~" in path (base-files update needed)
Errol Smith
errol@ros.com.au
Wed Sep 29 00:25:00 GMT 2004
At 01:31 AM 29/09/2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > # Set MANPATH so it includes users' private man if it exists
> > # if [ -d ~/man ]; then
> >-# MANPATH="~/man:${MANPATH}"
> >+# MANPATH="${HOME}/man:${MANPATH}"
> > # fi
> >
> > # Set INFOPATH so it includes users' private info if it exists
> > # if [ -d ~/info ]; then
> >-# INFOPATH="~/info:${INFOPATH}"
> >+# INFOPATH="${HOME}/info:${INFOPATH}"
> > # fi
>
>I don't know if man or info deal properly with ~ but neither of the
>above should cause a problem for which.
I realise they don't affect "which", but I was assuming they might affect
man and/or info. See Igors message
(http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg01565.html) which seems to
confirm my suspicions. Also, it was simply for consistency (no point doing
an assignment one way on one line & another way on another without a good
reason).
E
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