sudo blocks aliases

Arlen Christian Mart Cuss celtic at sairyx.org
Fri Dec 30 06:07:56 UTC 2005


The same. But, when I `man dash', I get the *man page* for `sh'. *sh* is 
a link to bash.

celtic at xyrias:~$ ls -l `which sh`
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 2005-12-02 04:13 /bin/sh -> bash
celtic at xyrias:~$



Vram wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 16:41 +1100, Arlen Christian Mart Cuss wrote:
>  
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>>The man page for `dash'? Typically that just gives you the man page for 
>>`sh', which is a symlink to `bash'! :)
>>*/
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>vram at Aether:~ $ ls -l `which dash`
>-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 83960 2004-10-26 08:42 /bin/dash
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>What do you get???
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>>Vram <lamsokvr at xprt.net>/* wrote:
>>
>>    On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 15:10 +1100, William Grant wrote:
>>     > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 19:20 -0800, James Diehl wrote:
>>     > > It's not a shell called Ubuntu. In the synaptic pkg. mgr., if you
>>     > > switch to status mode, at the end of the line for each item under
>>     > > installed version/latest version, it will say Ubuntu or
>>    whatever. If
>>     > > you open the tabs in the lower box, you can get a description and
>>     > > explanation for the items.
>>     >
>>     > The default shell that Ubuntu (along with the vast majority of other
>>     > distributions) uses is bash. bash = Bourne Again SHell. Because
>>    of this,
>>     > commands for bash will run fine in bash, therefor in Ubuntu. Get your
>>     > facts straight, Vram, please.
>>     >
>>     > William.
>>
>>    Thanks for the feed back...
>>
>>    And the reason I thought dash was the default shell..
>>
>>    If you look through /bin
>>
>>    Dash is the second shell and the man page says it is the default shell
>>
>>
>>    But, then again I think the man page lied...
>>
>>
>>    I am trying to get my facts straight..
>>
>>    Thank YOU!!! hehe
>>
>>    Vram
>>
>>
>>
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>>*/
>>
>>Vram <lamsokvr at xprt.net>/* wrote:
>>
>>    On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 15:10 +1100, William Grant wrote:
>>     > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 19:20 -0800, James Diehl wrote:
>>     > > It's not a shell called Ubuntu. In the synaptic pkg. mgr., if you
>>     > > switch to status mode, at the end of the line for each item under
>>     > > installed version/latest version, it will say Ubuntu or
>>    whatever. If
>>     > > you open the tabs in the lower box, you can get a description and
>>     > > explanation for the items.
>>     >
>>     > The default shell that Ubuntu (along with the vast majority of other
>>     > distributions) uses is bash. bash = Bourne Again SHell. Because
>>    of this,
>>     > commands for bash will run fine in bash, therefor in Ubuntu. Get your
>>     > facts straight, Vram, please.
>>     >
>>     > William.
>>
>>    Thanks for the feed back...
>>
>>    And the reason I thought dash was the default shell..
>>
>>    If you look through /bin
>>
>>    Dash is the second shell and the man page says it is the default shell
>>
>>
>>    But, then again I think the man page lied...
>>
>>
>>    I am trying to get my facts straight..
>>
>>    Thank YOU!!! hehe
>>
>>    Vram
>>
>>
>>
>>    -- 
>>    ubuntu-users mailing list
>>    ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>>    http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
>>
>>
>>    
>>
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