[pacman-dev] Bash completion

Xavier Chantry chantry.xavier at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 19:50:56 EST 2010


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Cedric Staniewski <cedric at gmx.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
> I just replaced my bash completion file with the git version and noticed
> it tries to execute /bin/seq and fails because seq is located at
> /usr/bin/seq. Since I could not find anything in coreutils' changelog
> file I guess the path was wrong right from the start and should be
> corrected.
>
> The other thing I wonder about (still the same commit[1]) is why the
> (slower) external echo command is preferred to bash's internal
> implementation.
>
> Thanks,
> Cedric
>
> [1]
> http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=8b3f5f0ce6dca98ca14cc48f5a85188313769b40
>
>

No idea if these paths changed, but there are other tools which are in
/usr/bin and not in /bin :
expr,seq,sort,find

And in /bin we have sed,grep,ls


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