On 26/02/10 08:23, Cedric Staniewski wrote:
The location of the used utilities may and does differ between various distributions and therefore absolute paths do not work well. Since the main purpose of its introduction was to avoid side-effects caused by aliases, it is sufficient to disable possible aliases temporarily by preceding the commands with a backslash.
That seems fine to me. Just one check. How long has that syntax been available (i.e. is it a bash4ism)?
Allan
