nonsense words for files

Philip Lantz philipl at azure.UUCP
Sun May 12 03:05:46 AEST 1985


> This reminds me of my usual mistake -- under UNIX, create a program
> test.c, compile it using make into test, and try to execute it.
> You get no output very quickly, since test is part of the shell.
> Hard to debug, too, since you can't find another executable file
> in your PATH.
> 	Bill Mansfield


On what UNIX systems (or what shells) is test part of the shell?  On
every system (and shell) I've used, it's in /bin/test.

prl



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