Bill Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> It has to be a dot file. A file who's name begins with `.' >> Try .test. >> >> Maybe someone here can explain why it doesn't work in a file named >> `test' but does in .test? > > For some reason it tries to source the binary "test" in /usr/bin ... > try renaming your files to ".foo" and "foo" and they should behave in > the expected fashion. > > You're seeing something like this, yes? > > [bill@pikachu tmp]$ . test > bash: ELF..: command not found
Yup... I posted it earlier but the ascii diamonds things didn't print. What threw me was that I was really using a file named `file'. But of course it is still the same phenomena with the `file' binary. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
