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

From Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org>
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject Re: why is 'direxpand' converting relative paths to absolute?
Date 2015-08-18 13:36 -0700
Message-ID <mailman.8569.1439930224.904.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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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 absolute.

Thanks for the explanation though..

linda

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Re: why is 'direxpand' converting relative paths to absolute? Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> - 2015-08-18 13:36 -0700

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