[plug] reinstall for new core hardware?

[James Devenish]

In message <20040105113706.GC26036 at patrick.wattle.id.au>
on Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:37:06PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:24:21PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> | Pah!
> | 
> | % where ed
> | /bin/ed
> 
> Bah to you too!
> 
> $ where ed
> -/bin/bash: where: command not found

$ which ed
/bin/ed

(If you said "Bah", I suppose I should have said "Zah"!)

> I'm a bit surprised that nvi doesn't install itself into /bin[1],

There do indeed seem to be a few favourites missing from /bin. And
Debian doesn't even install pax by default (it's given "optional"
priority instead of "required").

> While we're on the subject of ed:  http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html

LOL!

> [1] I'm talking about Debian here.  If your operating system of choice
> /does/ have a vi in /bin, more power to you.

host1% ls -s /bin/ed /bin/vi /bin/ex
  43 /bin/ed   216 /bin/ex   216 /bin/vi
(ed being an old and POSIX editor, though the new-fangled ex and vi are
present in the Open Group Single UNIX Specification.)