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prosoitos

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[SOLVED] Missing function "call"

Hi,

This is probably a really silly question, but I am missing `/bin/call` and get messages of the like:

zsh: command not found: call

bash: call: command not found

I tried googling it, but it seems that nobody has this issue so that all the hits I get, no matter what I google, are totally irrelevant.

I would appreciate any suggestion... Thank you!

Last edited by prosoitos (2018-05-22 21:06:47)

Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED] Missing function "call"

I don't have the call binary on my system either and I have no ill effects, a pacman search doesn't throw up any packages that contain it either.

I'm guessing that you're calling it somewhere in your shell initialisation files, why?
Please post them so we have some idea of context.

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prosoitos

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Re: [SOLVED] Missing function "call"

No. I was trying to use it out of pure ignorance: I was trying to run a `.bat` file without realizing that they are Windows only...

I managed to get the functions that were in this `.bat` file into a shell script and run it. So I am sorted.

Thank you for your reply though: it really helped me realize that not having the call binary was normal and thus to look more closely into what `.bat` files really are... So this was very helpful.

I guess I will close the issue then, since it isn't one.

prosoitos

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Re: [SOLVED] Missing function "call"

(This also explains why googling led nowhere... I was the only silly ignorant out there trying to run a `.bat` file in linux... )