Mighty Morph'n Symbolic Links
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All I can say is, "What on Earth?"
Macintosh:bin tbal$ python2.4 -V
Python 2.4.4
Macintosh:bin tbal$ python2.5 -V
Python 2.5.1
Macintosh:bin tbal$ which python2.4
/opt/local/bin/python2.4
Macintosh:bin tbal$ sudo ln -s /opt/local/bin/python2.4 /opt/local/bin/python
Macintosh:bin tbal$ which python
/opt/local/bin/python
Macintosh:bin tbal$ python -V
Python 2.5.1
Macintosh:bin tbal$ ls -l /opt/local/bin/python
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 24 Mar 14 14:08 /opt/local/bin/python -> /opt/local/bin/python2.4
Macintosh:bin tbal$I even tried it with a hard link. Same thing.
The best part is I created a script called: /opt/local/bin/python that contains:
python2.4 $*
And it worked great.
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hash -r
BASH keeps a hashtable of already found commands whereas there which command searches the path. Read the man page for BASH.
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1. Go back to the symlink, it DOES work great too. And if it doesn't...
2. your shell script is broken, if you call it with an argument with a space in it. Replace it by
exec python2.4 "$@"
