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11-12-2013

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Brilliant! That was exactly the reason! My path variable did have a "." in it before the system bin folders, thus pulling in a local (empty) file from the Scripts folder called 'ls'!

Thanks, vbe.

Code:

4: pmn@linuxhost  /home/pmn > echo $PATH
/opt/rational/projects/ruby/bin:.:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/home/pmn/bin:/opt/oraclest/product/11.1.0/client/bin
5: pmn@linuxhost  /home/pmn >

5: pmn@linuxhost  /home/pmn > cd /opt/smt/proiv/scripts/
6: pmn@linuxhost  /opt/smt/proiv/scripts > which ls
alias ls='ls --color=tty'
        ./ls
7: pmn@linuxhost  /opt/smt/proiv/scripts > /bin/ls -lart | wc -l
856
8: pmn@linuxhost  /opt/smt/proiv/scripts >

8: pmn@linuxhost  /opt/smt/proiv/scripts > /bin/ls -lart ls
-rwxrwxrwx 1 smt smt 0 Apr 21  2009 ls
9: pmn@linuxhost  /opt/smt/proiv/scripts >

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