On February 9, 2006 14:13, Mark Carlson wrote: > On 2/9/06, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/9/06, Martin Glazer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Any ideas? > > > > Which shell are you using and have you tried using a different one? > > > > i.e. /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/pwd" > > or /bin/tcsh -c "/usr/bin/pwd" > > > > maybe you're in a chrooted environment somehow? IIRC, some shells > > have built-in "trivial" commands, and they don't always work right. > > Bashes "echo" command for instance does not seem to support escape > > sequences. > > > > Just my 2 copper maple leafs.... > > > > -Mark > > Well, here may be a hint as to what your problem is: > >From the pwd(1) man page on gentoo (which for some reason doesn't seem > > to match the functionality of /usr/bin/pwd): > NOTE: your shell may have its own version of pwd which will supercede > the version described here. Please refer to your shell's > documentation for details about the options it supports. >
Thanks for the responses and pointing me in the right direction. That is the problem - the shell has its own version of pwd and the one I am trying to use is from coreutils.... but it still doesn't solve my main problem in that /bin/pwd does not work. Martin _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
