Package: debianutils
Version: 2.28.2-0ubuntu1
If a users sets a private directory such as "~/sbin" in their PATH the
which command will
not expand the "~" leaving it useless
Steps to reproduce
create an executable helloworld.sh script and place it in your ~/sbin
add ~/sbin to your PATH
execute
which helloworld
results expected.
/username/sbin/helloworld.sh
results recieved:
No results from the which command.
Suggested fix:
Allow the which script to expand the "~" via the following patch
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/bin# diff which.old which
45c45,46
< for ELEMENT in $PATH; do
---
> for UNEXPANDED_ELEMENT in $PATH; do
> ELEMENT=`eval echo $UNEXPANDED_ELEMENT`
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