When running script which is not in my path I have always used ./script_name. However at my current job most people are used not having to use the ./. My question is how do you get scripts to run WITHOUT the ./? **For example on this machine it works with the ./** [was at kent newShell]$ pwd /was/WebSphere/DeploymentManager/scripts/newShell [was at kent newShell]$ echo $PATH /IBMJava2-131/bin:/IBMJava2-131/jre/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/was/bin:. [was at kent newShell]$ wasAdmin.sh Agent pid 9410 Enter passphrase for /home/was/.ssh/wasAdminkey_dsa: [was at kent newShell]$ ./wasAdmin.sh Agent pid 9417 Enter passphrase for /home/was/.ssh/wasAdminkey_dsa: [was at kent newShell]$ **But on this machine the ./ is not optional** ns0001-06 /home/was $cd /was/WebSphere/DeploymentManager/scripts/newShell/ ns0001-06 /was/WebSphere/DeploymentManager/scripts/newShell $pwd /was/WebSphere/DeploymentManager/scripts/newShell ns0001-06 /was/WebSphere/DeploymentManager/scripts/newShell $echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/db2/db2inst1/sqllib/bin:/db2/db2inst1/sqllib/adm:/db2/db2inst1/sqllib/misc ns0001-06 /was/WebSphere/DeploymentManager/scripts/newShell $wasAdmin.sh -bash: wasAdmin.sh: command not found ns0001-06 /was/WebSphere/DeploymentManager/scripts/newShell $./wasAdmin.sh Agent pid 18846 Enter passphrase for /home/was/.ssh/wasAdminkey_dsa: ns0001-06 /was/WebSphere/DeploymentManager/scripts/newShell $ I assume this is shell setting, but which one? Brock