Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mimsy!umd5!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: $PATH glitch? -- Gould Powernode Message-ID: <6175@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Sat, 25-Jul-87 05:36:52 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6175 Posted: Sat Jul 25 05:36:52 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 22:06:53 EDT References: <155@dsacng1.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 8 Keywords: PATH shell environment In article <155@dsacng1.UUCP> naa1810@dsacng1.UUCP (Bill Bereza) writes: >I further experimented and found out that I could not execute a >new shell script that I created in my bin directory from any directory >path except when my cwd was my bin directory. Sounds like you corrupted your $PATH. The reason it worked when your cwd was your bin directory is that then the "." or "" in your $PATH found the command.