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Article #56232Re: TO WHOEVER IS COOL ENOUGH TO TACKLE THIS ONE...
From: Graham Chapman
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:00
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In article <01bc3741$c0548de0$0263a8c0@craig>, "Craig Irvine" <craig@mu.com.au> wrote: > > >Try running the file by typing in ". filename" (without the quotes)(that's >dot space filename). This tells the shell explicitly where to run the file >from. If it works then the path to the file that your trying to run >doesn't exist. You can edit your PATH in your .profile and put a "." (dot) >to represent the current directory. Be aware that this also presents a >security hole. filename means execute file in the current shell instead of creating a child shell. /filename means look for filename in the current directory and execute it. This is possibly the solution to the problem in the original post, if he didn't have the current directory in his path. Graham Chapman email: grahamc@zeta.org.au web : http://www.zeta.org.au/~grahamc/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,adb950d3e0041322 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: grahamc@zeta.org.au (Graham Chapman) Subject: Re: TO WHOEVER IS COOL ENOUGH TO TACKLE THIS ONE... Date: 1997/03/24 Message-ID: <5h5dki$h2e@phaedrus.kralizec.net.au> X-Deja-AN: 227952750 References: <33317DA9.78AB@erols.com> <5gvvf6$oqa@inferno.mpx.com.au> <01bc3741$c0548de0$0263a8c0@craig> Organization: Kralizec Dialup Internet Sydney, http://www.zeta.org.au/ Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux