Re: eagle-lin64-7.5.0.run, won't
On Sat 16 Jan 2016 at 12:28:32 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 16 January 2016 10:57:55 Curt wrote:
>
> > On 2016-01-16, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > >> So its full path is /home/gene/eagle-7.5.0/bin/eagle, not
> > >> /bin/eagle?
> > >>
> > >> Lisi
> > >
> > > I was cd'd to /home/gene/eagle-7.5.0 and the command issued was
> > > bin/eagle, which is perfectly legal syntax.
> >
> > Not if bin is not in your path it isn't.
>
> Oh? Since when? Neither is /home/gene/log, but I use that regularly in
> several scrips and from the command line since I have a
> user=me "tail -fn100 log/fetchmail.log" running in a console tab right
> now.
No syntax problems here. And I wouldn't quarrel with
tail -fn100 log/fetchmail.log
in a script either. However, I don't think it wise to write anything like
bin/eagle
into a script. That could accidentally run bin/eagle from whichever
directory you (or the script) happen to find yourself in.
Cheers,
David.
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