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glob2 (VIII)

LIB(I)  −  PWB/UNIX 10/14/76

NAME

lib − specify user libraries

SYNOPSIS

lib directory ... 

DESCRIPTION

Lib is used to specify user libraries to be searched by the shell.  The libraries are searched after the current directory and before the system libraries ‘/bin’ and ‘/usr/bin’.  Lib with no arguments prints the current library.  To specify no libraries do:

lib ""
Lib is executed within the Shell. 

SEE ALSO

sh (I), glob2 (VIII)

BUGS

Other than the shell and glob2 (VIII) which receives the library names explicitly, there is no access to the current library names for user or other system commands.  Thus time (I), nice (I), nohup (I), if (I), find (I), and repeat (VI) among others don’t act as one would first expect. 

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