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Re: What software uses /usr/bin/open?

From	Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject	Re: What software uses /usr/bin/open?
Date	2016-02-17 11:54 +0000
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References	<slrnnc7dra.14j.ylee@columbia.edu>

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On 2016-02-16, Yeechang Lee <ylee@columbia.edu> wrote:
> On RHEL/CentOS, /usr/bin/open is a symlink for /usr/bin/openvt. I'd
> like to call a shell script I've written "open". What software, if
> any, would break by having said script in ~/bin and having ~/bin first
> in my path?

Why not put it in /usr/local/bin/open ?

Should alreasy be first in you path.

Otoh well written software will be using "/usr/bin/opevt" instead of
relying on $PATH and a symlink.

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What software uses /usr/bin/open? Yeechang Lee <ylee@columbia.edu> - 2016-02-16 15:57 -0800
  Re: What software uses /usr/bin/open? Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2016-02-17 11:54 +0000
    Re: What software uses /usr/bin/open? Yeechang Lee <ylee@columbia.edu> - 2016-02-17 09:58 -0800
      Re: What software uses /usr/bin/open? Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2016-02-20 02:01 +0000

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