To the maintainers of the `dash` shell: I've come across an error with the PATH variable in `dash`. Instead of fully searching PATH for commands, dash will respond 'command not found' if `command -p <executable>` fails. The same command works fine in Bash. The following example was performed in a live cd of Debian 9.1 Stretch (run in a virtual machine), with dash version 0.5.8-2.4: ```bash user@debian:~$ PATH="~/my_bin:$PATH" dash $ echo $PATH ~/my_bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games $ ls -l ~/my_bin/list -rwxr--r-- 1 user user 18 Jan 10 17:42 /home/user/my_bin/list $ list dash: 3: list: not found $ exit user@debian:~$ PATH="$PATH:~/my_bin" list Desktop Documents Downloads Music my_bin Pictures Public Templates Videos ``` I believe but am not certain that this is related to the following patch: https://www.mail-archive.com/dash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg01329.html Thank you for your time, Joshua Nelson jynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx B.S. Computer Science College of Engineering and Computing | South Carolina Honors College This message was sent with a PGP[1] signature. -------- [1] https://www.openpgp.org/
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