On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Kelley Terry wrote:
> On Monday 26 February 2001 09:31 pm, Robert Fleming wrote:
> > I have an executable named 'hello'.
> >
> > If I cd to the directory it is in and type 'hello' it says file not found.
> > However, if I type './hello' it works properly.
> >
> > Why is this? and is there any way I can resolve it?
> >
> > thanks
> > wade
> hello is not in your executable path. To see your path type: echo $PATH in a
> command prompt.
Or, to make it more readable:
echo $PATH | tr : '\012'
> You can move hello in to your path or you can edit
> /root/.bashrc to include the parent directory of hello in your path.
>
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