[mdlug] Are you an April fool?

[Robert Meier]

>> What if you recieve this error
>> /etc/localtime: /etc/localtime: cannot execute binary file
>>
>> This is the command I attempted to execute
>> sudo bash> zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
> the bash part I think was just his command prompt.

Correct.   "bash>" is a stage direction intended to avoid confusion
like an identifier of speaker in a theatrical script.
ksh, /bin/sh, and other popular shells exist and differ, in such
things as the order of redirections or their support of implicit
subshells.

<EXAMPLE>
	Attorney: "Do you recall the time that you examined the body?" 
	Witness: "The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.."
	Attorney: "And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time?"
	Witness: "No, he was sitting on the table wondering
		  why I was doing an autopsy."
	  -- Massachusetts Bar Association Lawyers Journal
</EXAMPLE>

<EXAMPLE>
	bash> uname -rv
	2.6.15-28-386 #1 PREEMPT Thu Feb 1 15:51:56 UTC 2007
</EXAMPLE>



> /usr/sbin is probably not in "normal" users' paths, so
(Mea culpa, it isn't in my normal path.)

  bash> /usr/sbin/zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007


Hopefully helpful,
-- 
Dr. Robert J. Meier