Re: Command Performance.

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Tesla Coil said:
> Using xterm, rxvt, eterm, wterm, commands execute just fine 
> if they are in $PATH, but others return "command not found"
> even when I cd to the directory, do an ls to confirm that
> it's there, and issue the command at that point.  Shell
> makes no difference, but these commands will execute from
> midnight commander...
> 
> Um, what could have this result?

Umm...  If it isn't in $PATH, why should it run?  Unix shells don't
run stuff in the current directory unless "." is in $PATH (which is a
security hole).  If you want to run foo in the current directory, do
"./foo".

Steve
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