From: Iain Patterson <me@iain.cx>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:18:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Allow arbitrary shell expansion in *dirs.
X-Git-Url: http://git.iain.cx/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8c1da009c60a70fc256405ca5d9d044ac694a2ad;p=profile.git

Allow arbitrary shell expansion in *dirs.


git-svn-id: https://svn.cambridge.iain.cx/profile/trunk@80 6be0d1a5-5cfe-0310-89b6-964be062b18b
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diff --git a/.profile.d/PATH.bashrc b/.profile.d/PATH.bashrc
index 1a271aa..4c5d535 100644
--- a/.profile.d/PATH.bashrc
+++ b/.profile.d/PATH.bashrc
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ function makepath() {
   # Check the file exists.
   [ -e "$DIR/$dirs" ] || return
 
+  # Set IFS to newline only so that we can read $(embedded shell commands).
+  JGD=$IFS
+  IFS='
+'
   # Read them.
   path=
   for dir in $(cat "$DIR/$dirs"); do
@@ -37,6 +41,10 @@ function makepath() {
   done
   unset dir
 
+  # Restore IFS.
+  IFS=$JGD
+  unset JGD
+
   # Sanitise path.
   path=${path#:}
   [ -z "$path" ] && return