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What software uses /usr/bin/open?

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From Yeechang Lee <ylee@columbia.edu>
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Subject What software uses /usr/bin/open?
Date Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:57:30 -0800
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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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