On Tuesday 16 July 2002 01:35 am, chiranth wrote: > ls, mv and cp are all in /bin. So is echo. if he's unable to do an ls, > chances are he won't be able to "echo" his PATH variable.
echo is also a shell builtin. And shell builtins are searched before looking in your $PATH. So, chances are he will be able to echo $PATH even if his /bin is fubared, if he can get a shell. As a matter of fact, $PATH comes last in bash's search order. Binand ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
