On 11 Nov 2020 at 08:48p, Al pondered and said...

./ means current directory. Linux never looks for binary files to run in your current directory the way other OSs do, it only looks in the path. That's why you always need to add the ./ if you want to run a binary in your current directory.

This is a basic how-to learning for me to. Thanks :)

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Re: Re: Linux paths
By: Avon to Al on Thu Nov 12 2020 09:18 pm

On 11 Nov 2020 at 08:48p, Al pondered and said...

./ means current directory. Linux never looks for binary files to
run in your current directory the way other OSs do, it only looks in
the path. That's why you always need to add the ./ if you want to
run a binary in your current directory.

This is a basic how-to learning for me to. Thanks :)

Here's a quick and dirty way to put your current directory on your path so these commands work the way they work on other OSs..

PATH="$PATH:."

This is not the linux, or unix way.. ;)

Best if folks just use the ./ method.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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On 12 Nov 2020, Al said the following...

PATH="$PATH:."

This is not the linux, or unix way.. ;)

Best if folks just use the ./ method.

Just don't tell them about: alias dir='ls -h' ;)

Jay

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On 12 Nov 2020, 12:01p, Warpslide said the following...

Just don't tell them about: alias dir='ls -h' ;)

sudo apt install sl

That way you know when you misspell ls on the command line. ;)


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RE: Re: Linux paths
BY: Black Panther (21:1/186)

On Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 16:27, Black Panther (21:1/186) wrote:

On 12 Nov 2020, 12:01p, Warpslide said the following...

Just don't tell them about: alias dir='ls -h' ;)

sudo apt install sl

That way you know when you misspell ls on the command line. ;)

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On 13 Nov 2020, 02:06p, Xenos said the following...

sudo apt install sl

Doncha just love 'em trains? :D

I sure do. I also see it a lot. ;)

I had the same issue in dos. I didn't think typing a two or three character command would cause that many spelling issues...


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