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bug#20679: A bug of pwd
From: |
Bernhard Voelker |
Subject: |
bug#20679: A bug of pwd |
Date: |
Sun, 31 May 2015 10:15:44 +0200 |
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On 05/31/2015 04:35 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> First of all, I want to mention that the invoked 'pwd' is a builtin
>> in most shells, which means you have to e.g. specify the path like
>> /bin/pwd to be sure to invoke the coreutils version of it.
>
> A very, very small comment. This is all true but the wording makes it
> sound somewhat like a recommendation to use /bin/pwd in order to get
> the coreutils program. I don't think that was intended. I think
> instead it was intended only that normally the user has called the
> builtin pwd and the builtin is not coreutils and therefore nothing we
> would do about it here.
Indeed, thanks for making that clearer.
Have a nice day,
Berny