> > *Careful. '/usr/bin/test' is often a real program for* > * shells that don't have builtin 'test'. Which you just* > * overwrote.* >
I had no idea . . . good thing this is a test image - heh. Thanks Peter :) On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Peter Hurley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/25/2016 06:03 PM, William Hermans wrote: > > william@beaglebone:~/ti$ gcc test.c -o test > > william@beaglebone:~/ti$ test > > 'test' is a bash builtin > > > > william@beaglebone:~/ti$ ./test > > 32.540001 > > > > william@beaglebone:~/ti$ sudo ln -s /home/william/ti/test /usr/bin/test > > Careful. '/usr/bin/test' is often a real program for > shells that don't have builtin 'test'. Which you just > overwrote. > > > > william@beaglebone:~/ti$ test > > william@beaglebone:~/ti$ cd .. > > william@beaglebone:~$ test > > william@beaglebone:~$ sudo test > > 32.540001 > > > > So, it's a permissions issue. . . > > Nope. shell builtin aliasing. > > This thread has so much bad advice in it. > > Regards, > Peter Hurley > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
