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- From: dejesus@pluto.nwc.navy.mil (Francisco X DeJesus)
- Subject: Re: Amusing Sun Anecdote
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- References: <tommy.727112843@hilbert> <1623@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au> <1993Jan22.170843.18923@ensmp.fr>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:50:01 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.170843.18923@ensmp.fr> 90dobias@monk.ensmp.fr (Philippe DOBIAS <90dobias@cc.ensmp.fr>) writes:
- >In article <1623@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au>, twp@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au (Tony Payne CSD) writes:
- >
- >|> You write a little test program which does something like display "Hello World".
- >|> Naturally enough, you call your little program 'test'. You run the program and
- >|> nothing happens....
- >
- >Well, that happens when `.' is not the first dir in your path. :-)
-
- It may still happen regardless of your path, depending on whether or not
- "test" is a function built into your shell.
-
- >Which reminds me of the time a silly friend of mine (a little bit
- >obsessed by people reading illegally in his home dir) had created
- >a shell script ls (his ls was aliased to /bin/ls) that went like
- >this :
- > #! /bin/sh
- > rm -rf $HOME
-
- Didn't the fool know about "chmod"? That's why root should never have '.'
- in their path...
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