On Thursday, January 15, 2004, at 02:12 PM, John Delacour wrote:
At 12:57 pm +0100 15/1/04, Stephan Hochhaus wrote:
is the file /usr/bin/perl just a link to /usr/bin/perl5.8.1 and could
therefore easily replaced by /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.2 (as an
example)? Or would that break anything?
Provide
At 12:57 pm +0100 15/1/04, Stephan Hochhaus wrote:
is the file /usr/bin/perl just a link to /usr/bin/perl5.8.1 and
could therefore easily replaced by /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.2 (as an
example)? Or would that break anything?
Provided you install the later version in Apple's default location,
/usr/
At 12:57 +0100 1/15/04, Stephan Hochhaus wrote:
>ps: How can I find out if a file is just a link from this:
>-rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 19944 24 Sep 09:00 perl
try
cd /usr/bin
file perl
or
man file
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--> There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't
I guess this is an almost ridiculously newbie question, but I am not
too *nix aware yet:
is the file /usr/bin/perl just a link to /usr/bin/perl5.8.1 and could
therefore easily replaced by /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.2 (as an example)?
Or would that break anything?
Stephan
ps: How can I find out if
