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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!uknet!eldorado.net-tel.co.uk!usenet From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Subject: Re: path question X-Nntp-Posting-Host: evening-star.net-tel.co.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <DE6q0M.A2A@net-tel.co.uk> To: michael@gnj.or.jp Sender: usenet@net-tel.co.uk (usenet poster) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: NET-TEL Computer Systems Ltd References: <423snf$ist@gol1.gol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 17:02:44 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Url: news:423snf$ist@gol1.gol.com Lines: 19 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. You can add '.' to your path if you really want to do this - it is generally considered insecure, in case you browse into a directory where someone has left a program called 'ls' which does somthing other than what you expect 'ls' to do (like mailing the owner all of your secret data...) >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. If using csh, you need to use the 'rehash' command after adding programs to the directories on the path - otherwise, the shell 'knows' that there is no such program (because there wasn't one there last time it looked).