Re: [TCLUG:751] Problem running scripts - Need Advice

["Troy Johnson" <troy@minco.com>]

>>> "Joseph A. Heil" <heilja@dbsource.com> 07/29 8:20 AM >>>
  What you really want is to include your current directory, that 
way instead of ". foo" , just run "foo".  The path then should then
be this "$PATH = /bin:/usr/bin:/."  The "." should be the last entry
in the path statement, otherwise you might end up running a custom
version of a program when you might have want the standard version
which
would be found the the standard bin directories.
>>>>>>

I prefer to not have the current directory in my path, so I have to
use the either
the full pathname:
   /home/me/coolscript
or I have to run the script like this:
   cd  /home/me
   ./coolscript
This allows me the comfort of knowing I will not execute anything I
didn't mean
to by mistake, but if I am running this script all the time, for
convenience I'll put
it in my personal "bin" directory:
   /home/me/bin
and make sure that that directory is in my $PATH variable. After I do
that I can
just type:
   coolscript
at the prompt and the script will execute. But do what you feel
comfortable with,
and have a happy day,

Troy