On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:18:02 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 18:23:52 Graham Fawcett wrote: >> On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:27:44 -0400, Kagamin wrote: >> > Steven Schveighoffer Wrote: >> >> Oh I remember doing that too :) Don't feel bad, everyone does this >> >> at least once. I hate that stupid test builtin, nobody ever uses it >> >> anymore. >> >> >> >> Note, it's not a command line tool, it's a shell builtin, which is >> >> why it overrides anything in your search path. >> >> >> >> I've since adopted the habit of calling test programs "testme" >> >> instead of "test" :) >> > >> > Huh, must port windows console to linux ^_^ >> >> Too much work! Just put >> >> alias test='./test' >> >> in your .profile, and be happy. :) > > Though if you don't get used to putting ./ in front of the names of > binaries that you're running in the current directory, you're going to > have other problems. The suggestion does fix the occasional screw-up > with that particular command though.
Agreed; if you're going to use a system, learn how to use it properly. Then again, there's no shame in using "training wheels" if you're an absolute beginner. When I started using Unix, I was glad that the "dir" command was available on the system I was using. (I'm not sure if it was a binary, or whether a kindly sysop had provided an alias to "ls" for us Windows users). Learning is a journey of many small steps! Graham