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[dmartin at LanCity.COM (Derek Martin)]

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Subba Rao wrote:

> Yet, I can excute the programs in the current directory. When I run "echo $PATH", the "."
> does not appear in the list.

There are several possibilities.  When bash starts, it sources
$HOME/.bash_profile if it is a login shell, or $HOME/.profile if
.bash_profile doesn't exist.  Also all interactive bash shells (login or
not) source /etc/bashrc and $HOME/.bashrc whenever a new copy of bash
starts.

Check these files.  Also, many people do not realize that if the path
statement ends in a colon, it has the same effect as including . in your
path, i.e.

PATH=/bin:

is the same as 

PATH=/bin:.




Derek D. Martin           |  UNIX System Administrator
d_martin at worldnet.att.net |  dmartin at lancity.com

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