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At Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:42:40 +0200 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>
> On 2024-06-14 16:38, Lew Pitcher wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:35:02 +0000, db wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 14:36:49 -0000 (UTC), db wrote:
> >>
> >>> I like to make life easy so I wrote a one-line script for extracting the
> >>> contents of a tar file. I copied it into the /bin directory so I can run
> >>> it from anywhere.
> > [snip]
> >>> Why doesn't it work from bin/ ?
> >>
> >> Red face time.
> >> I just found out that I have an alias called tarx in
> >> my .bashrc. In fact, someone asked me about this and
> >> I answered in the negative, without checking. My apologies!
> >
> > Apology accepted. :-)
> >
> > Glad you found (and presumably fixed) your problem.
>
>
> What command would show what exact incantation is used? Ie, what
> path/binary, or what alias?
>
> which tarx?
>
>
> For instance:
>
> cer@Telcontar:~> which l
> which: no l in
> (/home/cer/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin)
> cer@Telcontar:~>
>
>
> But it is an alias in my system
This depends on the shell...
marchhare% which dir
dir: aliased to ls -F -C
marchhare% echo $SHELL
/bin/tcsh
>
>
>
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