On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 05:21:42PM +0000, Allodoxaphobia wrote: > On an older Ubuntu 10.04 system I still use (I know, I know...) I > get _no_ response. But the return code appears correct: > > jonesy@nix4:~$ uname -a > Linux nix4 2.6.32-39-generic #86-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 13 21:47:32 UTC 2012 i686 > GNU/Linux > jonesy@nix4:~$ bash -version > GNU bash, version 4.1.5(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) > Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > jonesy@nix4:~$ echo $? > 0 > jonesy@nix4:~$ "a nonexistent command with spaces" > jonesy@nix4:~$ echo $? > 127
Check what your command_not_found_handle function is set to do. Many Linux distributions create one in the default user profiles, and as we've seen earlier in this thread, some of them have bugs.
