Re: Posix command locations

"gns" <gnskumar@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

#!/bin/ksh -p
#
cmd=`basename $0`
$cmd "$@"

It is not evident to me as to how the actual command is getting called via
this shell script.

It's a shell builtin.

-p is Korn shell is to turn on the privileged mode to run setuid programs. I
could not find the suid profile for ksh under /etc.

It is used to make sure $ENV is ignored also; that is the more important
purpose in this case.

I replaced the -p option with -x in the /usr/bin/cd script, but there was no
change in behaviour of the "cd" command, "cd" just worked as before.

Quite; these commands are never used by the shell; they appear to
exist so that ``execlp("cd", ....)'' works.

Can someone letme know how exactly this works and where exactly the binaries
are located.

/bin/ksh would be the binary

Casper
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