On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:23:17AM -0400, Tony Heal wrote: > I have a problem on one of my servers. The ‘ls’ command does not have the –h > switch available. So as a workaround until I can determine what caused this and > why I wanted to use the ‘ls’ file from another server. I copied /bin/ls from > server # 2 onto server # 1 and tested it and it works fine, including the –h > switch. > > > > So I typed set, read the PATH and found that /usr/local/bin is in the path > before /usr/bin. I thought I could simply drop the new ls in /usr/local/bin and > the system would see it first when called and use it. WRONG. > > > > So my questions are: > > 1. why not? > 2. what is the order used in the path? > > > for personal binaries, most folks use ~/bin. Edit .bash_profile for this. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! |
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