Re: stuff in ~/bin won't run

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Subject: Re: stuff in ~/bin won't run
From: Daryl Styrk <darylstyrk@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:57:58 -0500
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Mike Castle wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Put the new bin BEFORE the old path.
> 
> Huh?  Why?
> 
> 

According to "Learning the BASH Shell" by Cameron Newham and Bill
Rosenblatt  it is dangerous to have personal bin directory listed before
the public bin directories.

I have no idea what the policy is for quoting excerpts from a book so
I've chosen to leave it out.  If it's ok, I'll be happy to give up the
couple of lines.

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