<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 10 dec 2009, at 11.09, Berend Hasselman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On 10-12-2009, at 10:39, Peter Pagin wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">See what you get from echo $PATH<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">(I get /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/X11/bin:/Users/berendhasselman/bin)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">/bin should be in your PATH.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I get:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Macintosh-309:~ ppagin$ echo $PATH<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/X11/bin<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">So it is.<br></blockquote><br>Wel that looks ok.<br>But rm has disappeared from your /bin according to your previous reply.<br><br>Do a "ls /bin" and see what you get.<br>I get:<br>[<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>dd<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>kill<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>mv<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sh<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>wait4path<br>bash<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>df<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ksh<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>pax<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sleep<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>zsh<br>cat<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>domainname<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>launchctl<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ps<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>stty<br>chmod<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>echo<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>link<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>pwd<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>sync<br>cp<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ed<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ln<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>rcp<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>tcsh<br>csh<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>expr<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ls<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>rm<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>test<br>date<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>hostname<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>mkdir<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>rmdir<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>unlink<br><br><br>If there is no rm in the list then I wouldn't know how to repair.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I now actually looked at the directory, and rm exists there as 0 byte document, not as a substantial executable file. So in the relevant sense, "it" is not there.</div><div><br></div><div>Peter</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Berend<br><br><br><br>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a><br>List Archive: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a><br>TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br>List Info: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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