[Gloucs] Odd shell behaviour...

[Thomas Adam]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:51:22PM +0000, Mick Brooks wrote:
> I have no aliases defined that concern gv, and I can't see any other
> gv executables that might be being picked up in my path before the
> correct one. Does anybody have any idea what's going on?

echo $PATH

It might be (by some odd coincidence) you have:

/usr/bin/X11

listed before:

/usr/bin

The order that the directories are listed in $PATH dictate the search
order used.

> It gets wierder, though: if I use strace (I wanted to see if I could
> see where bash was looking) like so:
>
> $ strace gv
>
> it works perfectly! What's 'strace gv' got that 'gv' doesn't?

So use the strace output to find out for yourself. :)

-- Thomas Adam

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