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9:54 AM

@terdon Sorry for the off-topic-ness, but I thought you might want a quick chuckle: twitter.com/Zannah_Du/status/856848429477134336

terdon

@Kusalananda Ha! Brilliant :)

And off topic is fine, this is chat after all.

Stephen Kitt

@Gilles I think the older one is a subset of the newer one (e.g. Stéphane’s answer to the newer question doesn’t apply to the older one), so the current situation seems fine to me (with your duplicated answer).

terdon

Agreed. They seem to be approaching it from slightly different angles.

tripleee

10:15 AM

there was a Zalgo spam earlier today which Chrome offered to translate from Vietnamese

Kusalananda

@tripleee That sounds resonable. Also: eeemo.net

terdon

I am trying to help a user over on AU and have a weird issue:

# echo "$PATH"
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/loc‌al/games:/root/anaconda3/bin
# ls -l /root/anaconda3/bin/anaconda
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 158 avril 25 16:47 anaconda
# which anaconda  ## no result
# type anaconda
bash: type: anaconda: not found

Setting aside the fact that they're working as root, how is it possible for something to be in a directory in the PATH, be executable and yet not appearing in the output of which or type?

And yes, it does work if they just run it using the full path.

If anyone would like to chime in, I'm chatting here:

Room for Vincent and terdon

tripleee

10:44 AM

if they had anaconda in a different path previously and Bash cached it, then they deleted it, they would need to hash -r anaconda to update the command cache

terdon

11:13 AM

Man, @Kusalananda, we have to stop doing this :)

Since the contents of config.sh is running in the same context as main.sh, this should not be necessary. — Kusalananda 1 min ago

Why? This shouldn't make any difference, the export will make it available to subshells and that's not needed here. — terdon ♦ 38 secs ago

Kusalananda

:-) I couldn't wait for you to get there...

This is an issue with $PATH

(my guess)

terdon

Or it's a user running a Debian-based distribution whose sh is actually dash not bourne-sh so source doesn't work and they need .

Archemar

I was about to say the smae as @Kusalananda

Kusalananda

@terdon dash needs the path to the file too. So it could be a double-error.

terdon

Yeah, your answer seems to be nicely covering both bases.

@tripleee not sure about the dupe. The dupe target you chose was all about running it as root. I agree that the root cause (no pun intended) is the same, but slm's answer is probably too complicated for the OP here.

Stephen Kitt

11:21 AM

@Kusalananda you need to add a flashing blue light to your avatar ;-)

tripleee

@terdon mmm possible, just throwing that in as a pointer really

terdon

@StephenKitt Yeah, I'd call it the fastest gun in the west problem if his answers didn't tend to actually be good :P

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Q: Fastest Gun in the West Problem

I feel like there's a problem with Stack Overflow, as the number of people prowling it increases. Each question's answers are sorted by descending score and then by descending time of posting. This means that if a person sits down and answers a question in a long, thorough way, going through eve...

Stephen Kitt

@terdon yee-hah!

terdon

snort

Stephen Kitt

although since I see 15 minutes passed between the answer and the comments, there must have been some traffic in the way, or a shoot-out to see to somewhere else first

(either that or people could be doing other stuff than Unix.SE... naaaah)

Kusalananda

12:53 PM

@terdon, well you beat me to that one.... unix.stackexchange.com/questions/361414/…

By about a second.

terdon

Ha! :P

derobert

4:09 PM

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Q: Non-ascii in Cygwin bash command line causes error

I'm calling bash from cmd.exe like this c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -c "echo ф" and get on Cygwin 2.8.0 /usr/bin/bash: echo ф: command not found It treats the parameter as part of the command name. Doing the same on Cygwin 2.5.2 I get the output ф.

bash cygwin

@terdon I wonder what the right thing to do with questions like that is. That seems like it really ought to be a bug report.

Room for Vincent and terdon

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