Re: CDPATH reports to stdout and even non-interactively

[Chet Ramey]

Geoff Kuenning wrote:

> Actually, the Posix standard is ambiguous.  Although it (foolishly)
> requires reporting to stdout rather than stderr, it does not mention
> whether this behavior is required for both interactive and
> non-interactive shells.

It's not, really.  Unless otherwise specified (and the standard is pretty
good about saying "interactive shell" when it means an interactive shell),
the specified behavior applies to all shell invocations.  You might not
agree with it, but it's not ambiguous.

Chet

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