On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 07:36:31PM -0700, michael rice wrote:
> Is there a problem with naming a bash script file "script"? I'm using Fedora
> 11.
>
> ...
> [mich...@localhost ~]$ cat ./bin/script
> #!/bin/bash
> # Sample shell script
> echo "The date today is `date`"
> echo Your shell is $SHELL
> echo Your home directory is $HOME
> echo The processes running on your system are shown below:
> ps
>
> [mich...@localhost ~]$ script
> Script started, file is typescript
The "which" command is useful to see how a command will be resolved. If
you type:
which script
you'll likely see something other than what you're expecting.
Ken
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Ken Irving, fn...@uaf.edu
Water and Environmental Research Center
Institute of Northern Engineering
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
