On Jan 17, 2011, at 08:52 , Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2011-01-16 23:05, Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote: >> Do you maybe have 'ln' aliased to 'ln -s'? > > Even if you would have such an alias, shell scripts normally don't use > aliases.
Can you clarify this? Normally, in a shell script, using 'ln' will invoke whatever version of 'ln' is found first [following the evaluation rules for the shell in charge]. An alias will be found before anything on the disk (unless the shell is doing something strange). Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds ----------- Like the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands hunting for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem. - Alan MacKay -- -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
