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- From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony A. Datri)
- Subject: Re: Amusing Sun Anecdote
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:19:46 GMT
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- >>Well, that happens when `.' is not the first dir in your path. :-)
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- I don't run with . in my path *at all*. Tcsh, though, can automagically
- migrate . to the end of the path.
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- >My shell happens to be the Korn shell, but other shells have a built-in
- >"test" command as well (both the Bourne shell in SunOS [345].x, and the
- >version of the Bourne-again shell we have here, have a built-in "test"
- >command, and give the exact same behavior).
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- HPUX, as I remember, doesn't have a /bin/test, and I think I remember that
- their sh or csh didn't have a builtin. Grrrr.
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