[beginner] Why nothing is printed to stdout ?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 18:23:52 Graham Fawcett wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:27:44 -0400, Kagamin wrote:
> > Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:
> >> Oh I remember doing that too :)  Don't feel bad, everyone does this at
> >> least once.  I hate that stupid test builtin, nobody ever uses it
> >> anymore.
> >> 
> >> Note, it's not a command line tool, it's a shell builtin, which is why
> >> it overrides anything in your search path.
> >> 
> >> I've since adopted the habit of calling test programs "testme" instead
> >> of "test" :)
> > 
> > Huh, must port windows console to linux ^_^
> 
> Too much work! Just put
> 
>   alias test='./test'
> 
> in your .profile, and be happy. :)

Though if you don't get used to putting ./ in front of the names of binaries 
that you're running in the current directory, you're going to have other 
problems. The suggestion does fix the occasional screw-up with that particular 
command though.

- Jonathan M Davis