> The reason I'm teaching this stuff is that I am encouraging our postgrads to 
> have a "script collection". Currently I find that most people collect their 
> code together with their data, without the code being under version control.

Exactly! thus a ~/scripts folder in your PATH and under version control… This 
is really the most real-world solution.

> P.S. just after telling students about PATH etc one of our more experienced 
> students managed to make their laptop unusable by setting PATH incorrectly in 
> their .bash_profile, so I am well aware of its dangers.

One of my more up-voted answers on stackexchange is ways to fix that, so it 
definitely happens a lot in the real world.


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