Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:23:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: crossd@cs.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, cracauer@cons.org, jmoss@ichips.intel.com, chet@po.cwru.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'bug' in /bin/sh's builtin 'echo' Message-ID: <199809162023.NAA24335@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980915213623.28206C-100000@eggbeater.cs.rpi.edu> from "David E. Cross" at Sep 15, 98 09:44:26 pm
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> I already tried that. echo is a shell builtin, and is given precedence > over binaries in the files system, I found no way to turn that > 'feature'off. man sh ... There are three types of commands: shell functions, builtin commands, and normal programs -- and the command is searched for (by name) in that or- der. They each are executed in a different way. ...so implement it as a shell function instead of a normal program. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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