The path is in the environment. Isn't everything? You can do things
that affect the environment. If you wanted, you could set it to
nothing:
PATH=
but then most commands would stop working, so probably you don't want to
do that. More likely, you want to add something to it:
PATH="PATH:."
Now your current directory is in the path, and you can run a script
without the ./, but you haven't taken out the other directories where
commands are to be found. Most folks arrange for the environment to be
set to their liking by a shell initialization script so they don't have
to be bothered with it any more. Near the end of man bash it tells you
where it looks for initialization files. It's rather dense reading, but
it's worth wading through a few times until it starts to make sense.
Really, it will make things much easier to understand. Eventually.
Lawson
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On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Charles M Stapleton wrote:
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