PATH after creating .bashrc

[John B Brown]

	If you have access to a UNIX system administrator from the age of Bell 
Labs and Mr. Thompson's shell, they will know about .surc.

	Wikipedia is just another side thread on the web of lies, to say 
nothing about university-restricted definitions pages. Original AT&T and 
Berkeley manuals from the '80s might help; stuff no longer used seems 
dropped from recent manuals.

	You might try older folk with WORM experience at CMU.

On 9/13/10 9:08 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
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> On 9/13/10 00:21 , John B Brown wrote:
>> You could be correct, but then there was .surc; how does that fit into your
>> "run commands" general theory?
>
> So much for "theory":
> http://kb.iu.edu/data/abdr.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_commands (with references you can check)
>
>> .surc was used to restrict commands in sh, ksh, csh, and finally bash. If
>
> References?  Certainly it's not mentioned in the manuals for any of the
> above, nor does it appear as a string in the binary, on any of the systems I
> have access to here.
>
> - --
> brandon s. allbery     [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]      allbery at kf8nh.com
> system administrator  [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]  allbery at ece.cmu.edu
> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university      KF8NH
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