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[Timothy Murphy]

James Wilkinson wrote:

>> Obviously the programs are related - it would be bizarre if they weren't
>> - but to have two programs with the same name which do different things
>> seems to me a recipe for confusion.
>> It means that if I type system-config-printer
>> the effect depends on the definition of $PATH on my system.
> 
> Um. The concept of having two different implementations of the same
> command has been there in Unix for most of its life. Most shells have
> built-in versions of things like echo and true, but there are still
> stand-alone versions of the same basic program.

I'm not sure what you are saying.
I only have one "echo" program /bin/echo and one "true" program /bin/true .
I would find it confusing if I had two programs /bin/echo and /sbin/echo
which did slightly different things.

Of course, if an application asks me to type "true"
it is not likely to be calling /bin/true !


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