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From: danj1@ulysses.att.com (Dan Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: running a program "test" in a shell script
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Date: 14 Mar 91 21:45:57 GMT
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In-reply-to: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz's message of Thu, 14 Mar 91 03:25:47 GMT
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[oh boy! I am the first to answer! :-)]
>>>>> On Thu, 14 Mar 91 03:25:47 GMT, russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz
>>>>> (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) said:

Russell> All was well until somebody named their executable 'test'.

They should use a different name.  [Brilliant observation #1 ! :-) ]

Russell> This results in a script being generated and executed on the
Russell> sun that includes the line

Russell> test <parameters>

Try ./test <parameters>
or /some/ugly/hardwired/path/test <parameters>
[Brilliant observation #2 ! :-) ]