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From: mts@ms.UUCP (Martin Stanley)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Please do NOT use "/bin/test" as a command name
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 10:59:54 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 10 10:59:54 1985
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Reply-To: mts@ms.UUCP (Martin Stanley)
Organization: Home Computer of Martin Stanley, Toronto, Ontario
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Keywords: PATH, shell scripts, absolute names, aliases, csh
Summary: 


And just to add fuel to the fire: 

What about personal aliases conflicting with csh script commands.  For
example, many people around here alias rm to rm -i.  This would break
many csh scripts.  The PATH solution given in geoff's article would not
solve this problem.

Of course, a *very* conscientious programmer could unalias every
potentially conflicting name he uses in a script. :-)
-- 

 Martin Stanley
 Department of Computer Science
 University of Toronto
 Toronto, ON
 M5S 1A4

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