Chet Ramey wrote:
On 10/1/17 7:30 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
Only in the case of login -- they user CAN'T set it before they login, but
someone **could** have changed the system /etc/profile script to set OLDPWD
to /hang (i.e. someone is behaving "maliciously").
Login shells rarely get
On 10/1/17 7:30 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
> Only in the case of login -- they user CAN'T set it before they login, but
> someone **could** have changed the system /etc/profile script to set OLDPWD
> to /hang (i.e. someone is behaving "maliciously").
Login shells rarely get OLDPWD from the
2015-01-22 14:43:00 +, Stephane Chazelas:
[...]
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 30
> Release Status: release
>
> (Debian unstable amd64)
>
> $ LC_ALL=tr_TR.UTF-8 bash -c 'typeset -l a; a=İ; echo $a' | hd
> 69 b0 0a |i..|
> 0003
[...]
On 10/01/2017 11:31 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
cmd=$(PATH=/stdpath type -p cmd)
I use this kind of construction with 'type -p' regularly:
! cmd=$(type -p cmd) && echo "ABEND: Executable cmd not in PATH" && exit
Then $cmd can be used to execute the binary, and not some alias or
function. This is
Pierre Gaston wrote:
Besides the fact that most people don't use alias in script
---
That's due to bash being non-POSIX compatible, by default in regard to
aliases. Aliases are designed to "always be there" and always be "on"
unless
explicitly turned off so people could rely on them.
