path oddity = my fault :-/

path oddity = my fault :-/

[Carlo Strozzi]

My apologies for the subject "bug" report. It was my fault, due to
the fact that I'm a newbie to Rc. I was setting $path in my ~/.rcrc
file with:
             path = ``(:){echo $PATH}

while it should have been either:

             path = ``(:){echo -n $PATH}
or:
             path = ``($ifs :){echo $PATH}


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Re: path oddity = my fault :-/

[Tim Goodwin]

> My apologies for the subject "bug" report. It was my fault, due to
> the fact that I'm a newbie to Rc. I was setting $path in my ~/.rcrc
> file with:
>              path = ``(:){echo $PATH}

I'm glad you got to the bottom of the problem.  (Don't feel too
badly; I've made the same mistake myself of removing NL from $ifs,
and forgetting that it will be then be preserved in backquote
substitutions.)

But I don't understand why you want to do this: rc automatically keeps
$path and $PATH synchronized.

Tim.

Re: path oddity = my fault :-/

[Carlo Strozzi]

On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:31:17AM +0100, Tim Goodwin wrote:
 (...)
 >But I don't understand why you want to do this: rc automatically keeps
 >$path and $PATH synchronized.

woops ... I'm afraid I didn't RTFM carefully enough once again :-).
Thanks for the hint. Well, at least I'm keeping this list lively :-D

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