On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 09:30:22AM +0000, agou wrote:
> I am running the latest stable Debian, and my shell is ksh. On all other  
> UNIXes I am used to getting a message along the line of "No such file  
> ..." from the shell when I issue an unknown command, whether I use ksh  
> or bash; on this system it doesn't happen. No message, just a new prompt.
>
> I have tried to find the explanation in man ksh and by searching on the  
> net, but nothing has turned up. Does any of you guys what is going on 
> here?

I don't use ksh, but it may support a "command not found" handler, 
a shell function that is called in that event.  If such a handler
exists, but does nothing, it could have the result you see.

-- 
Ken Irving


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