"grep" not working

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, May 17, 2007, Dirk Moolman wrote:
>Ok, I found the problem.   David was on the right track, regarding the
>binary which could be different.
>
>I found this out another way, by printing out root's profile, and the
>user's profile, and sitting and comparing the 2 profiles.   I first
>thought this might be related to the locale or language settings, but it
>wasn't.

That seems to be the hard way to compare them:

# as user
env | sort > /tmp/envuser
su - root
env | sort > /tmp/envroot
exit
diff -u /tmp/envuser /tmp/envroot

>I then got desperate, and changed her PATH settings, and viola, it
>worked. I then ran a find, to look for another file with the name grep.
>Interesting enough, the which & type commands, showed the correct binary
>(in /usr/bin), but the find command showed me another file, sitting in
>the directory she was working in.

This is why the local directory '.' should *NEVER* be in one's PATH!

Bill
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