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Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/



On Tue 28 Mar 2017 at 13:09:57 -0400, songbird wrote:

> kAt wrote:
> ...
> > I have an example where this might be useful or then I am not
> > understanding the difference.
> >
> > Let's say you have an executable package in the system and let's call it
> > pkgX
> > If you type pkgX in any prompt then /usr/bin/pkgX will be executed
> 
>   maybe, maybe not (depends upon path).

/usr/local/bin precedes /usr/bin in the default value of $PATH
Debian gives the user.

-- 
Brian.


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