[SOLVED] Trying to use Plan 9's binaries instead of the traditional ones

moisespedro · 11-11-2014, 06:18 PM

Sorry for the horrible title, I couldn't think of something better. I've downloaded and compiled 9base under ~/.bin/plan9

Code:

$ ls ~/.bin/plan9/
bin/  etc/  lib/  share/  yacc/

I have it in my path set on .bashrc with:

Code:

PATH=~/.bin:~/.bin/plan9/bin:$PATH
export PATH

Code:

echo $PATH
/home/pedro/.bin:/home/pedro/.bin/plan9/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/kde4/libexec:/usr/lib/qt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin

However, it doesn't run the Plan 9's binaries all the time, if I type something like "ls --help" (unavaliable to the Plan 9 one) it invokes the /bin/ls (normal GNU one) instead. I got what happened but how can I make it run the Plan 9's binaries every single time?

BrZ · 11-11-2014, 06:48 PM

Easy (and safe?) route: rename /bin/ls to something like ls.orig and create a symbolic link (symlink) to plan9 one. You may have /usr/bin/ls pointing to /bin/ls...

moisespedro · 11-11-2014, 08:15 PM

Well, the reason I installed them under ~/.bin was to not mess up with the other system binaries :-(

BrZ · 11-11-2014, 09:00 PM

"alias ls=/path/to" ?

moisespedro · 11-11-2014, 09:02 PM

Hmmm, that could work. I just don't get why it is not run every single time if it comes first in the $PATH.

ml4711 · 11-12-2014, 02:59 AM

in /etc/profile.d/coreutils-dircolors.sh You find

Code:

alias ls='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS'

So for that command it is already an alias with full PATH

Just run alias, and You see what may interfere with Your setup:

Code:

alias
alias d='dir'
alias dir='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS --format=vertical'
alias ls='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS'
alias mc='. /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh'
alias v='vdir'
alias vdir='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS --format=long'

moisespedro · 11-12-2014, 06:46 AM

Ohh, I think it is that. Thanks.