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What software uses /usr/bin/open?

From	Yeechang Lee <ylee@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject	What software uses /usr/bin/open?
Date	2016-02-16 15:57 -0800
Organization	World Domination for Fun and Profit, Inc.
Message-ID	<slrnnc7dra.14j.ylee@columbia.edu> (permalink)

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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?

Obviously software that normally run as root or another user wouldn't
be affected, but things I run as my normal user login, or run with
sudo, would. I just don't know if there are any such; I do know that I
have never knowingly invoked open/openvt in 20 years of using Red Hat
Linux.

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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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