[5071] in testers
Re: x X and .dircolors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Baldwin)
Mon Aug 13 16:18:19 2001
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 16:18:05 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200108132018.QAA15073@geskekelud.mit.edu>
From: Laura Baldwin <boojum@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@mit.edu
In-reply-to: [4691]
Okay, I figured it out. I have a perl script, "test", that's in my
bin directory. This was a teeny little thing I wrote and forgot to
delete, to let me see if I understood chomping, so it output
"x <chomped STDIN> X". Linux appears to run some sort of test for
.dircolors upon starting an xterm, presumably in order to decide how
to colorize ls, but it finds my test script earlier in the path before
the /usr/bin/test. Oops.
-Laura
