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From: Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org>
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Subject: Re: why is 'direxpand' converting relative paths to absolute?
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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