ksh and sh

[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <11900 at ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> by ekrell at hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell):
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| In article <8272 at boring.cwi.nl> aeb at cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer) writes:
| >I have been bitten several times, especially when installing new
| >versions of system software, by the fact that ksh does not
| >search the PATH for each command, but remembers where the command
| >was. (I.e., some commands, sometimes all commands,
| >are tracked aliases. There is an option to make all commands
| >tracked aliases, but none to switch off this `feature'.)
| 
| I believe all you have to do is change the value of $PATH to
| force ksh into unbinding all the tracked aliases. I use
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Sure there's a way to get ksh to stop tracking:  "set +o trackall".
You must still use "PATH=$PATH" or "hash -r" to zap the current tracked
aliases, but after the "set" you won't have to worry about it any more.

++Brandon
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