On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:18:20PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
>
> | Yes - I don't have "times" anywhere.. It does say ! /bin/sh at the top
> | of testsuite afterall, not some other shell. eg. of output from testsuite:
> |
> | 1: tools.at:47 times: not found
> | FAILED near `tools.at:83'
>
> Thanks!
>
> What is your platform? How does
>
> :; times >at-times 2>/dev/null; echo $?
>
> behave?
>
> how does Tim's proposal work?
>
> at_times=:
> times >dev/null 2>&1 && at_times=times
> $times >at-times
> echo $?
quartz% cat foo.sh
#! /bin/sh
:; times >at-times 2>/dev/null; echo $?
at_times=:
times >dev/null 2>&1 && at_times=times
$times >at-times
echo $?
quartz% sh foo.sh
times: not found
127
times: not found
0
quartz% uname -rms
NetBSD 1.5X i386
Cheers,
Patrick
