Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 14:48:51 +0100, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
> > #!/bin/sh
> > PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin:\
> > /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:\
> > /usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/marcel/bin ls
> > ls
>
> What do you think the shell should be doing with this malformed path?
I assume you all understand that this was a simple invocation of
PATH=something ls. You all heard of line-continuation didn't you?
Anyway, try this:
scones% sh
% PATH=/foobar:$PATH ls
<some output>
% ls
ls: not found
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