Description of problem: pipes doesn't work as expected : pipe have to be glued to the next command in order to work, otherwise, the result is a "command not found" (the white spaces after the pipe are taken as part of the command after the pipe !) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC5 up to date How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open a (gnome) terminal and type 'ls | grep a' 2. making a 'su' or a 'su -' doesn't change anything Actual results: [a@localhost ~]$ ls | grep a bash: grep: command not found Expected results: just grep string "a" in the output of ls Additional info: Quite surprinsingly 'ls |grep a' work (note the absence of the blank after the pipe) !
Perhaps you are accidentally typing Shift-space instead of space? What happens when you copy and paste this line?: ls | grep a
It works. It took me half an hour to understand : I almost always keep alt-gr pressed when I type the white space after '|' (french keyboard layout). I can't tell if I began to do that yesterday or if under FC4 the behavior is different (space = alt-gr space). Thanks and sorry.