Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Also, using full paths is frowned upon.
You mean invoking /directory/some-command directly instead of PATH=$PATH:/directory some-command ? It depends on the situation. If you think some-command is in /directory, but you want to allow for the possibility that it might be somewhere else in $PATH, then augmenting $PATH and invoking some-command by its basename is better. On the other hand, if you know that the some-command you want is definitely in /directory, and if there could be other versions of some-command elsewhere in $PATH that are different from the one you want, then it's best to invoke /directory/some-command by its full path. paul
