Re: why is 'direxpand' converting relative paths to absolute?

2015-08-18 Thread Linda Walsh
Clark Wang wrote: I had the same problem months ago. See Chet's answer: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-03/msg00069.html === Yep though I'm not sure about the reasoning in providing different behaviors based on default-dir-expansion == convert all relative paths to

Re: why is 'direxpand' converting relative paths to absolute?

2015-08-16 Thread Clark Wang
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:54 AM, Linda Walsh b...@tlinx.org wrote: From the manpage I wouldn't have guess it changed paths to absolute -- but would expand variables and wildcards in the path. It doesn't seem to make alot of sense when there are other ways to go from rel-abs, but not so many

why is 'direxpand' converting relative paths to absolute?

2015-08-16 Thread Linda Walsh
From the manpage I wouldn't have guess it changed paths to absolute -- but would expand variables and wildcards in the path. It doesn't seem to make alot of sense when there are other ways to go from rel-abs, but not so many that just expand vars or aliases on a dir. Does anyone know why