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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Pressing Enter (bash) Post 302285463 by ddreggors on Monday 9th of February 2009 03:02:06 AM
Old 02-09-2009
Quote:
An exernal command where none is needed.
oops...

I guess we are assuming echo is built-in and not /bin/echo (GNU external).

Code:
[user@host ~]$ echo --version
--version
[user@host ~]$ /bin/echo --version
echo (GNU coreutils) 6.10
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

 

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CHROOT(1)							   User Commands							 CHROOT(1)

NAME

       chroot - run command or interactive shell with special root directory

SYNOPSIS

       chroot NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]...]
       chroot OPTION

DESCRIPTION

       Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT.

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       If no command is given, run ``${SHELL} -i'' (default: /bin/sh).

AUTHOR

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REPORTING BUGS

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       chroot(2)

       The  full documentation for chroot is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and chroot programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

	      info coreutils 'chroot invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

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