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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: path question
Date: 1 Sep 1995 12:47:32 +0200
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MICHAEL <michael@gnj.or.jp> wrote:
>If I enter "test1" then the system reports that the command is not
>found. However, if I enter "./test1" the command executed ok.
The default path does not contain `.'. (root's default path should
never contain it, btw.)
>I checked the path by looking at "set" and the path includes
>"/home/michael/bin", so I made a directory called bin and moved
>test1 into bin. But when I enter "test1" it still is not found.
For [t]csh: type `rehash'.
For [ba]sh: type `hash -r'
The shell remembers the location of commands, so you have to notify it
whenever you have installed a new command.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)