On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:40:58 -0500 Tom Duerbusch <duerbus...@stlouiscity.com> wrote:
> Thanks Mark > > That was it. > I would have thought that my current directory would be searched prior to > searching the path. Nope - it's called "security" The old Unixes did use to put . at the start of the path by default, and people used to leave executables with names like "ls" in /tmp [1]. If you put it at the end as people then did then folks put binaries like "sl" in /tmp and wait. Nowdays most people I know have a ~/bin on their path where they can drop binaries. Alan [1] Something like this was popular back in my student days. #!/bin/sh cp ./ls ~/ls 2>/dev/null echo "sleep 1" >>~/.profile /bin/ls $* So you really don't want "." in your path. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
