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Re: [PATCH] Allow qualified filename (bar/foo) PATH searching.



On Tue 01 Oct 2024 at 11:54:02 -0400, Mouse wrote:
> > You can just change in the shell, but in this case, calling an
> > utility dealing with utilities (nice, nohup, timeout, xargs...) you
> > can't use the feature since then the command name is an argument,
> > unless you add ad hoc knowledge in the shell about which commands to
> > treat specifically for arguments being command names.

That reminds me of env, another utility dealing with utilities. It is
often used for explicit PATH searching, especially when used in a #!
line. So one could put this special searching variant just in env,
perhaps.

-Olaf.
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___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert                            <rhialto/at/falu.nl>
\X/ There is no AI. There is just someone else's work.           --I. Rose

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