Re: Minor installation defects
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 01:51:21PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
> At 18:41 +0200 1999-05-27, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> >It's not bash, it's the "test" binary. Try "which [". RH seems to have a n
> >old or broken version of shellutils if test is from the GNU shellutils on
> >RH.
>
> In most shells, [ and test are builtins, and the `test' binary and
> `[' hard link are never used unless the builtins are disabled or the
> binaries are invoked with an absolute path.
Ok, I was confused, because I asked on #debian how to test if a command is a
builtin or not, and they pointed me to "which", which is obviously false.
(One answer to my question would be "enable" for bash, which prints all
builtins)
Marcus
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