Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:33:44 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: mayuresh@kathe.in, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailx anyone? Message-ID: <20180614183344.2eebdc67.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <44po0uyqrp.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <70677739ac5a415c5004ea551a7458b0@kathe.in> <c458985f-ecc5-0c20-df8a-a106886d8df6@FreeBSD.org> <7b3cc5ce196fd216ccdd76fb340a2492@kathe.in> <20180613204623.3705ae36.freebsd@edvax.de> <44po0uyqrp.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 23:46:02 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes: > > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 23:13:13 +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > >> On 2018-06-13 09:37 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> > On 13/06/2018 16:48, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > >> >> does anyone on this list still use mailx? > >> >> if not regularly, at-least intermittently? > >> > > >> > Given that mail(1) is part of the FreeBSD base system and is pretty > >> > much the same thing as mailx(1), then probably not that many will use > >> > mailx(1). mail(1) is something I do use intermittently. > >> > >> mailx is just a link to mail. :-) > > > > It is actually the same file; check with "ls -li". :-) > > Which doesn't mean it has the same behaviour if called by different names. > [See: 'w' vs. 'uptime'] Fully correct. On historical FreeBSD, there was a directory full of programs (almost) all the same size, (almost) all with different names, (almost) all pointing to the same inode entry; that was /rescue/*. Depending on argv[0], the same (!) program would act totally differently. It is not uncommon on UNIX system to "select" program functionality by program _invocation_, either via hardlink or via symlink. In some cases, it's just different names for the same program with the same behaviour, for providing backward compatibility, mostly for scripts. > In this case, though, I thought they were supposed to behave the same > way in either case, and I can't find any reason to think otherwise. According to "man mail", there is no difference in behaviour listed. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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