What are your reasons for the recommendation? The case against alias, as shown by this thread, shows one pain point to compare against the benefit. What is the issue with the '\' prefix, which I did not know existed.
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 4:49 PM Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > Avoid aliases and functions with a backslash. For example: > > $ \find /etc/ | head > > Regards, > - Robert > > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 4:38 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > true - the alias usage was already answered by 'type find' > > > > However - if you reorder PATH variable than one could be picking up > > find from ~/bin for example .... which whould also be reported by 'type > > find' ... so you are right <== which is redundand here ... > > > > -T > > > > On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 15:38 -0700, wes wrote: > > > "which" won't tell us whether there's an alias in the way or not. it > > > will > > > only tell us where an executable file matching the given name exists > > > in the > > > user's defined PATH. > > > > > > -wes > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 3:37 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > what does: which find > > > > returns? > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 13:06 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, Johnathan Mantey wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Have you tried > > > > > > /usr/bin/find / -name foo > > > > > > > > > > Now that's interesting. Explicitly providing the path works. > > > > > > > > > > I'm having other, more serious, issues with this new desktop > > > > > and I > > > > > expect > > > > > that getting the others resolved will fix these, too. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > Rich > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > PLUG mailing list > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > PLUG mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
