Post #3913827

I had an issue where logging in to a terminal on this laptop would lock up (but would continue if I hit Control+C). I traced it to a line in my .bash_functions: if inst trans && grep -q 'Translate Shell' $(which trans); then It was locking up, because inst (defined as function inst { type "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1; }) was returning a 0, but then $(which trans) wasn't giving any output. I opened a terminal, hit Control+C, and ran (and got) the following: rld@prometheus:~$ type trans trans is /home/rld/.local/bin/trans rld@prometheus:~$ which trans rld@prometheus:~$ HOW?!?!? My fix was to change that line to: if inst trans && grep -q 'Translate Shell' $(which trans) </dev/null; then To force grep to not hang. Now both type and which find it: rld@prometheus:~$ type trans trans is /home/rld/.local/bin/trans rld@prometheus:~$ which trans /home/rld/.local/bin/trans rld@prometheus:~$ which -a trans /home/rld/.local/bin/trans rld@prometheus:~$ I'm so confuzzled. But when I revert that change, I'm back to this! rld@prometheus:~$ type trans trans is /home/rld/.local/bin/trans rld@prometheus:~$ which trans rld@prometheus:~$ echo $? 1 rld@prometheus:~$ which -a trans rld@prometheus:~$ echo $? 1 rld@prometheus:~$ Very confused. XD