From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PCt5U-00048h-QR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:02:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A4D03E078E; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:01:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB91E078E for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:01:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16]) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCt57-0001jW-KC for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:01:46 -0400 Received: from math.Princeton.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oA1C1jF0032559 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:01:45 -0400 Received: (from wwong@localhost) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id oA1C1jqt032556 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:01:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:01:45 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME Message-ID: <20101101120145.GA32253@math.princeton.edu> References: <87pqupbaoe.fsf@newsguy.com> <201011011249.53945.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <87hbg1b9d5.fsf@newsguy.com> <201011011307.34534.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201011011307.34534.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Archives-Salt: 850cab53-db9c-407a-9390-c76f8ef33f9f X-Archives-Hash: 455c1db0c8a604051c80e0e8b4352a5e On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 01:07:34PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >> Something I have not run into before. > > >> > > >> Following a major update still in progress I find the ls command will > > >> not run on $HOME. > > >> > > > By the time the command hits ls itself, the shell has already expanded > > > the HOME variable. So it's unlikely to be the command and more something > > > dodgy with your shell. > > > > > > What shell are you using? > > > What is the output of "echo $HOME"? > > > > My shell is xterm... and was just updated to: > > Wed Oct 27 10:15:06 2010 >>> x11-terms/xterm-262 > > That's the terminal. > > What shell do you use/ > > > echo $HOME > > /home/reader Before we go further, when you said `ls' will not complete against $HOME, which of the following scenario did you mean? a) you typed `ls $HOME' as a user (the one I think Alan thinks you mean) b) you type `ls' while in your home directory (/home/reader) c) you typed `ls /home/reader' ? W -- Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton