Re: executable problem

[Marcelo Chiapparini <chiappa@uerj.br>]

n Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:46:48PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Marcelo Chiapparini <chiappa@uerj.br> wrote:
> >I've just compiled a FORTRAN program but I am unable to run the 
> >executable, because "bash: qhdiv0.e: command not found". I think 
> >this is because the present directory it is not in the PATH.
> 
> Just so you know why this is considered a bad idea: you might be in
> /tmp, say, and want to see the contents of the directory, so you type
> 'ls'. What if some other user has created an executable in /tmp/ls? This
> sort of thing is why people will advise you just to get used to typing
> './qhdiv0.e' instead.
> 

I would like to thanks to all the people who taught me about this. 
I will follow the healthy way and use ./ instead of modify the PATH.

Thanks again,

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Marcelo Chiapparini
DFT-IF/UERJ
chiappa@uerj.br