I sure wish I'd managed to keep all the flotsam generated by cpan much
earlier today - unfortunately, it's vanished if swirling puff of electrons.
But this is probably old had to real Perl'ers. Still, I thought someone
might want to know about it...
Much later in the day, I discovered that a "head" command typed into
Terminal no longer gave me the first few lines of a file. Instead it seemed
to provide numerous error messages and webbish looking stuff after some
considerable delay.
I believe this behavior is probably the result of my having installed
Bundle::LWP because cpan had been complaining about LWP not being installed
while I was installing MacOSX::File. I vaguely recall having been asked a
question about whether something named "head" should have something or
other done with it but the details escape me (as most things seem to be
prone to do these days).
What I do recall is not being told that the "head" command which I've taken
for granted all this time was about to be overwritten by something else -
which, considering the subject at the time, probably has something to do
with HTML headers. Perhaps a warning with a bit more "teeth" in it would be
sensible?
Perhaps even better would be not to use the word "head" as the name of a
command in the first place - especially one that overwrites a command
provided by MacOSX in the first place? I don't really know what the LWP
"head" command did (and foolishly deleted it so I'd have a harder time
finding out now), but the word "header" seems to be available on my system
and might suffice.
--
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I repeat we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with
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