On 25.02.2010 23:44, Allan McRae wrote: > On 26/02/10 08:23, Cedric Staniewski wrote: >> The location of the used utilities may and does differ between various >> distributions and therefore absolute paths do not work well. Since the >> main purpose of its introduction was to avoid side-effects caused by >> aliases, it is sufficient to disable possible aliases temporarily by >> preceding the commands with a backslash. > > That seems fine to me. Just one check. How long has that syntax been > available (i.e. is it a bash4ism)? > > Allan
Just tested it on GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release and it works. So I guess it's safe to use.
