Re: First use of /sbin in Unix?

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From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 14:47

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Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> writes:
>On 2018-06-07, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2018-06-06, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>> Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> writes:
>>>>On Wed, 2018-06-06, Grant Taylor wrote:
>
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>
>>>>> I personally have ~/bin first in my path.
>>>>
>>>>It's unclear to me if that's standardized, but yes, I make sure I have
>>>>that in my $PATH, too.  It's where all scripts go that are only
>>>>interesting to me.
>>>
>>> It only needs to be at the _front_ of $PATH if you intend to
>>> override utilities of the same name that exist under earlier
>>> entries in $PATH.
>>
>> I was going to comment on that, but didn't bother.  I put ~/bin
>> last in my path; seems to me overriding a standard utility would
>> almost always be the wrong solution to a problem.
>
>+1

Almost always.  I have it first in the path.

I use ksh.   Ksh has a built-in alias 'r' that interacts
with the shell history

r='hist -s'

I often type 'r x' to replay the last 'xrn' command, but sometimes
the space bar doesn't register (and the xterm window is partially
obscured), so I end up invoking the 'rx'
utility (part of the {XYZ}modem receive code), and there's no
easy way to exit it.

Putting a symbolic link in ~/bin for rx pointing to /bin/true
solves this problem.

Sure, I could remove the package containing rx (I'll likely never use
xmodem style transfers - they've been obsolete for close to two
decades), but it's easier to just catch it in ~/bin.

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