Re: % in $PATH

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 11:59:47AM +0000, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> ash/dash have a nice feature that allows to have:
> 
> PATH=/bin:%builtin:/usr/bin:/some/dir%func:/sbin
> 
> To have commands in /bin take precedence over builtins and
> files in /some/dir being looked up for autoloaded functions (a
> bit like FPATH in ksh/zsh).
> 
> That's nice but the way it is implemented, that means that %
> characters in $PATH cause problems. See for instance:
> 
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/126955/percent-in-path-environment-variable

I'm inclined to just kill this feature, or at least make it a
configuration option that's disabled by default.

Cheers,
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