nonsense words for files

Doug Gwyn <gwyn> gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA
Thu May 16 06:53:57 AEST 1985


> On what UNIX systems (or what shells) is test part of the shell?  On
> every system (and shell) I've used, it's in /bin/test.

It's also built into all modern shells (e.g., SV Bourne, Korn).
Not only that, but most experienced users put the current directory
LAST in their $PATH to avoid unpleasant surprises while browsing, or
leave it out of the $PATH altogether (then type "./myprog" to run
"myprog" in the current directory), so that /bin/test would still get
executed instead of the local directory's "test".



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