[Solved] Re: Why update Swahili?

gilpel at altern.org gilpel at altern.org
Thu Sep 24 15:04:59 UTC 2009


> On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 06:14 +0500, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
>> Andras Simon wrote:
>>
>> > On 9/23/09, gilpel at altern.org <gilpel at altern.org> wrote:
>> >>> gilpel at altern.org wrote:
>>
>> >> So, if I write
>> >>
>> >> rm m17n*
>> >>
>> >> it will remove all instances of m17n...
>> >>
>> >> but, because yum is not a bash command, the * has to be escaped?
>> >
>> > No. Neither are bash commands
>>
>> Well, in my book, rm is a bash command. It might not be exclusive to the
>> bash shell, but it definitely is a bash command. Otherwise, maybe you
>> could tell us what a bash command is to you?
> ----
> Try executing the command, 'yum provides /bin/rm'
>
> rm is not a bash command per se. It is a core utility that can be used
> by bash or any command shell (and there are many other command shells
> other than bash supplied by Fedora).
>
> Your book is wrong.

Many are, it seems, e.g.:

http://infocenter.guardiandigital.com/manuals/SecureCommunity/node262.html

http://fedorasolved.org/Members/opsec/common-bash-commands

which proves once again that Google is not always your friend.




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