"grep" not working

Shawn Tayler stayler
Thu May 17 05:02:17 PDT 2007


On Thu, 17 May 2007 13:24:25 +0200 "Dirk Moolman"
<DirkM at agilitytech.co.za> exclaimed:

> It looks like we use the same binaries.  I have seen the term "tracked
> alias" before, but after Googling it, it looks like the same thing as a
> normal alias.
> 
> [user]
> zanettar at myhost> which grep  
> grep is a tracked alias for /usr/bin/grep
> zanettar at myhost> exit  
> 
> [root]
> root at myhost # which grep
> /usr/bin/grep

Is there an alias statement in the ~/.profile for the user or root?

Shawn



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