/usr/bin/cd (was Re: sudo cd command doesn`t appear to work.)
Todd C. Miller
Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Thu Aug 1 01:38:06 EDT 2002
In message <20020801150852.B23954 at zipperii.zip.com.au>
so spake Matthew Hannigan (mlh):
> This may be tangential to tcurrent thread, but, sadly,
> there IS a /usr/bin/cd command on POSIX standard systems.
>
> It's perfectly useless, of course, and can make things even
> worse (more complex) for commands like sudo.
Yes, apparently someone in System V land decided that almost every
shell builtin should have a corresponding link in /usr/bin.
Utter madness.
- todd
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