Re: Trivial script will NOT execute
On Fri 04 Nov 2016 at 20:37:53 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 11/4/2016 7:54 PM, John L. Ries wrote:
> >Any chance the current directory is not in your path?
> >
>
> That's not a mere 'scary' thought,
> it is a *TERRIFYING* thought :<
Steady on...
> "Why?" you may ask.
> " 'cause it implies an intrinsic failure of *nix documentation."
Or of someone to read it.
> What should I "be reading"/"have read" ?
man bash
(Put whatever shell you use.)
Anyone changing their $PATH should make themselves aware of the danger
of adding . explicitly, or even implicitly by, say, thinking that : is
a delimiter rather than a separator, or by screwing up a parameter
substitution and ending up with :: anywhere in the $PATH.
The current working directory is included here three times—at the
beginning, middle and end.
:/usr/bin::/bin:.
One other point. I see you use spaces in your filenames. Regardless of
this, you should quote your strings in such as FILENAME=$F$N$E
Cheers,
David.
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