On 25 March 2011 12:27, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> I read that as allowing the shell to run programs that the kernel would
>> reject. I eventually understood it to mean that you can hide programs
>> where only the shell will find them. Is the current directory one of
>> those places, I wonder? I'm reluctant to figure it out for myself -
>> long day.
>
> try this:
>
> cd $home/tmp
> cat > diff
> #!/bin/rc
> echo hi!
> <EOT>
> chmod a+x diff
> history -D $somefile
> diff $somefile `{yesterday $somefile}
>
i always set $path to (/bin .)
it can be much faster, apart from anything else.
