On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 08:00:17AM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> In HP-UX many commands (or "subsystems") use /opt/<subsys>/{bin,sbin} to place
> their binaries. PATH usually does not contain all of them. That's against Linux
> philosophy I think, and I really don't like huge PATHs, but it may be one solution
> to reduce the size of linear lists. It won't help against the git<TAB><TAB> issue
> directly, however.
In HP-UX, the default shell has a line length limit that is smaller than
the length of $PATH. Be in awe of enterprise scalability.
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