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From: Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org>
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Subject: why is 'direxpand' converting relative paths to absolute?
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>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 path conversion was built into it?



Linda Walsh wrote:
> 
> 
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> writes:
>>
>>> in bash 4.3.39,
>>> if I type a command, (like "."(source)) and a relative path
>>> like : ../conf<complete>,
>>> it expands the relative pathname to absolute pathnames.
>>
>> Worksforme.  Make sure to run complete -r first.
> ---
> You didn't say what version of bash you were using... but
> that may not be relative:
> 
> It seems to be "direxpand" -- do you have it on or off.
> 
> It is supposed to perform word expansion.  It doesn't
> say it will convert relative paths to absolute.
> 
> Has it always been that way? (I thought direxpand expanded
> variables in a path?)
> 
>