Re: posix command search and execution

[Mike Jonkmans]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 08:07:31PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 11/9/23 11:17 AM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 10:12:06PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> > 
> > On Ubuntu 22.04 `getconf path' returns /bin:/usr/bin
> > and these are symlinked.
> Then that's an issue to take up with Debian/Ubuntu, right? If they're
> symlinked by the distro, then getconf PATH should only return one of them.

Yes, that would be more efficient than a shell checking for symlinks in PATH.

I'll try to convince them.

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Regards, Mike Jonkmans