From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: "Ray Andrews" <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: whence output varies with dot vs. realpath in $PATH
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 19:14:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <128a1ff4-1af4-4d5f-b2e9-754daa6d9016@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f246a94-944c-cbc3-27af-43a34b90151d@eastlink.ca>
On Mon, Oct 31, 2022, at 6:59 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> On 2022-10-31 14:18, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>> The "zsh is zsh" output means you have an empty path element, e.g. two
>> consecutive colons in $PATH or $PATH begins or ends with colon, and an
>> executable or link named "zsh" in the current directory.
>>
>
>> 2 /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk 1 $ echo $PATH
>> /aWorking/Zsh/Source/Wk:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:
>>
> Thereyago, I'll kill that trailing colon. Still, it seems like
> something that should be ignored.
Why should whence ignore it? An empty PATH element actually means
something to PATH searches; it is not cosmetic.
--
vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-31 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-31 13:30 Ray Andrews
2022-10-31 13:43 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-10-31 14:06 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-31 14:10 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-10-31 14:32 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-31 14:36 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-10-31 14:57 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-31 21:18 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-31 22:26 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-31 22:59 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-31 23:03 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-31 23:17 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-31 23:21 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-31 23:14 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2022-10-31 23:21 ` Ray Andrews
2022-10-31 23:38 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-01 0:03 ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-01 0:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-11-01 0:55 ` Ray Andrews
2022-11-01 1:08 ` Bart Schaefer
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