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I notice the whereis command does not use your $PATH variable. In particular it did not find the location of kate. So I decided to try and write an alisas that uses your $PATH variable. this code works
Code:
shane@mainbox ~ $ whereis -B {/usr,/usr/bin,/usr/kde/3.4/bin} -f kate
kate: /usr/kde/3.4/bin/kate
I would think this would also work, but it does not
I wonder of the maintainers of bash left out being able to use comand subtitution in braces for a specific reason(refering to my failed code).
I also noticed this a few days ago
Code:
shane@mainbox ~ $ echo t{yh}
t{yh}
I would expect that to return tyh, but it dos not. According to bash you need at least two items seperated by commas for the properties of braces to work.
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