On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 09:54:28AM -0400, Chad Miller wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 09:22:27AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > Perhaps not. But a traceroute in /usr/bin would satisfy more people than > > a traceroute in /usr/sbin. > > Hear, hear! It would be a flag day for a few poorly written programs > out there, but a reorg is worth it. Then they're VERY poorly written. The proper way (in posix sh) to invoke a command that should be in the path (but look before you leap) is this: if command -v desired_command > /dev/null 2>&1; then desired_command --args fi (It would be nice if POSIX had thought to include a -s option to shut command up and just return an exist status so as to avoid all that ugly redirection, but oh well.) -- G. Branden Robinson | If you have the slightest bit of Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual integrity you cannot branden@debian.org | support the government. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- anonymous
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