Bug 11266 - PATH setting in /etc/profile.d/kde.{csh,sh} not quite right
Summary: PATH setting in /etc/profile.d/kde.{csh,sh} not quite right
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kdesupport
Version: 6.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Reported: 2000-05-06 22:17 UTC by chris
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-05-06 22:17:29 UTC
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Description chris 2000-05-06 22:17:29 UTC
In /etc/profile.d/kde.csh, there's a line which says:

  echo ${PATH} | grep -q ${kdepath}

This doesn't check whether an entire PATH component matches ${kdepath}; it
may match a substring of a PATH component (e.g. if kdepath=/usr/local/bin,
and I have /usr/local/bin/scripts on my PATH but *not* /usr/local/bin, grep
will still exit with a success code...bad example, but you get the idea).

Presumably a better plan would be something like:

  echo ${PATH} | egrep -q '(:|^)'"${kdepath}"'(:|$)'

Similarly in /etc/profile.d/kde.sh

Comment 1 Ngo Than 2000-09-12 20:26:11 UTC
fixed in kdesupport-1.1.2-19

Comment 2 chris 2001-05-09 16:25:52 UTC
Looks like this has reverted to the previous broken code in kdesupport-2.1-3.


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