Re: [newbie] Command execution

[Wayne Petherick]

Barry,
in command line terms the . is the functional equivalent of "this
directory".  The / means the root or main directory off of that
indicated.  So in effect the ./means the root of the current
directory.  IN simple terms, it means the directory you are in!  The
reason you do this is because the program you are executing is not
identified as being in the path so you have to rely on your command line
arguments to tell the computer where the program you are executing
resides.

Cheers,

Wayne