Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:48:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports problems -- FIXED Message-ID: <200208231748.g7NHmDlh087531@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <441y8pzf43.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.no-ip.com> wrote:
> Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> writes:
> > The $PATH is a sequence of dirctory names (separated by
> > colons). A directory name is just that -- the file name
> > of a directory. Such a name _never_ ends with a slash,
> > because the slash is used to separate components of a
> > path.
>
> That was my assumption, but I've been unsuccessful in trying to back
> it up with hard facts. I have checked a wide range of reference
> materials (aside from POSIX itself, to which I have no access), and
> can't find anything to say this explicitly.
From our sh(1) manpage, subsection "Path Search":
2. The shell searches each entry in PATH in turn for
the command. The value of the PATH variable should
be a series of entries separated by colons. Each
entry consists of a directory name.
It does not say "... or a directory name followed by a
slash".
Regards
Oliver
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