Re: posix command search and execution

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/9/23 11:17 AM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 10:12:06PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> >      Date:        Thu, 9 Nov 2023 14:21:35 +0100
> >      From:        Mike Jonkmans <bashbug@jonkmans.nl>
> >      Message-ID:  <20231109132135.GA208484@jonkmans.nl>
> >
> >    | If I am not mistaken, for POSIX compliance, both /bin and /usr/bin have
> >    | to be in PATH (see quote from Robert).
> >
> > No, I didn't say that, there are no particular required directory
> > names, just that PATH needs to include whatever directories contain
> > all the standard utilities ... getconf() returns that path.
> >
> > I used those names just as an example.
>
> Ah, that is clear then.
> 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.

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