Re: My bash script is missing something - what?
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 11:51:37AM -0400, songbird wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I have a trivial bash script named test.sh which has been marked
> > as executable.
> also remember that test itself is a builtin
> or binary on some systems.
It's required by POSIX, so it will be a command on *every* system.
Whether it's a shell builtin is not specified, but every modern shell
makes it a builtin -- even dash.
> you may be running on thing and thinking
> you are running another.
>
> in this particular case with the .sh
> extension you are safe, but forget that
> once and ...
Yes, this is excellent advice. After being bitten by this once or twice
in my early Unix years, I stopped making commands called "test" and made
commands called "foo", "bar", "foobar", etc.
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