Thanks Chuck! It works, I believe I understand now, thats why I got a "No such file or directory" it could not see it in the folder I made. again appreciate the guidance.
Mike On Wednesday 01 January 2003 04:54 pm, you wrote: > Here's the rub, by type ./HW you are telling bash to run it in the > current directory. Also, path's are NOT recursive, so when you put it > inside a second folder inside the ~/bin directory, it will not see it. > Put the HW script directly into your ~/bin directory, then then type > just HW (NOT ./HW) > > Chuck > > On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 17:10, MG wrote: > Hey Mark, > I was just using "./HW" > as in: > [mike@avatar mike]$ ./HW > What I gathered was if the script was in a directory, that was in my > PATH, I could just use the name of the script instead of the whole path. I > looked in my /home/mike/.bash_profile file and it said: > > [mike@avatar mike]$ cat .bash_profile > # .bash_profile > > # Get the aliases and functions > if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then > . ~/.bashrc > fi > > # User specific environment and startup programs > > PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin > > Perhaps /home/mike/bin is not in the path of PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin ? > > Mike > > On Wednesday 01 January 2003 03:36 pm, you wrote: > > MG wrote: > > > Hi all, This question is not really Mandrake specific although I am > > > using Mandrake8.2 (and like it alot!)...anyways trying to learn the > > > bash shell. I wrote a small script (the "Hello World" script) and > > > named it "HW". I did a "chmod 755" to it, so all could read and > > > execute it. I made a /bin directoy in my home directoy and put the > > > script there. But my problem is I can only execute it when I am in > > > the directoy of the script. I have a permission problem(I think), > > > but cant seem to find it. Any help > > > would be appreciated. > > > Here is where scipt is at: > > > /home/mike/bin/practice_script/ > > > > > > > > > [mike@avatar practice_script]$ ls -al > > > total 12 > > > drwxr-xr-x 2 mike mike 4096 Dec 28 09:51 ./ > > > drwxr-xr-x 3 mike mike 4096 Dec 28 21:24 ../ > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 mike mike 52 Dec 28 09:51 HW* > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 mike mike 0 Dec 28 09:49 HW~ > > > > > > If I execute the script any where but /practice_script/ I get this > > > [mike@avatar mike]$ ./HW > > > bash: ./HW: No such file or directory > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Mike > > > > Mike, > > > > When you call it from anywhere else except the directory where it's > > located how are you calling it? for instance...if yo're in /home/mike > > and you want to call the script you would call it this way: > > > > bin/practice_script/HW [enter] > > > > Is this how you're doing it? > > > > Mark > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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