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Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found
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Dennis Williamson |
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Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found |
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Mon, 1 Nov 2021 17:22:41 -0500 |
On Mon, Nov 1, 2021, 3:46 PM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2021 at 03:23:15AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 12:03:48 -0400
> > From: Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
> > Message-ID: <YYAP5PynR6Us/FV/@wooledge.org>
> >
> > | > bash: : command not found
> > | > bash: : command not found
> > |
> > | Because this is you, I can't be sure whether you are correctly
> pasting
> > | the output from your terminal into email,
> >
> > Actually, because it is him, it is more likely that he has "cat" aliased
> > to ' ' somehow, since he loves aliases so much.
>
> Not a bad guess, but I can't reproduce it that way:
>
> unicorn:~$ bash
> unicorn:~$ alias cat=' '
> unicorn:~$ cat /dev/null
> bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
> unicorn:~$ alias cat=''
> unicorn:~$ cat /dev/null
> bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
>
> Then I tried with a non-breaking space, and that's closer, but....
>
> unicorn:~$ alias cat=' '
> unicorn:~$ cat /dev/null
> bash: : command not found
>
> The "space nbsp space" in that result is interesting, but I don't think
> that's what he's doing, even accounting for the possiblity that he
> typed one space where the terminal shows three.
>
I only get a non-breaking space and a space between the colons rather than
three space characters.
>
- some unknown bug, says : command not found, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/11/01
- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Greg Wooledge, 2021/11/01
- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/11/01
- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/11/01
- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Greg Wooledge, 2021/11/01
- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/11/01
- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/11/01
- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Greg Wooledge, 2021/11/01
Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Robert Elz, 2021/11/01
- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Greg Wooledge, 2021/11/01
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- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/11/01
- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Greg Wooledge, 2021/11/02
- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/11/02
- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/11/02
- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/11/02
- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/11/03
- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/11/03
- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/11/03
- Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/11/03