-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on Sep 8, Björn Persson did say: > Note that the "./directory/file" syntax isn't only used in shell scripts. Nor > is it specifically for executing programs. It's simply a way to reference a > file relative to the current directory. "." is the current directory, "./file" > is a file in the current directory, and "./directory/file" is a file in a > subdirectory of the current directory. Probably Deepak was thinking ./path/filename was for executing programs because the default execution path on most linux systems doesn't include . (for very good reasons of course) And if you want to run a program from the current directory (when said directory isn't specifically in the users path) then ./filename or /absolutepathtodir/filename is needed. It should be noted however that the example Deepak used of: . /etc/sysconfig/sendmail would only attempt execution of the same file as: ./etc/sysconfig/sendmail if, the user is currently in the root "/" directory. That is if the user was in /root for example, then ./etc/sysconfig/sendmail would try to execute /root/etc/sysconfig/sendmail and most likely not find any such file. - -- | --- --- | Joe (theWordy) Philbrook <o> <o> | J(tWdy)P ^ | <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>> /---\ "bla bla bla..." | \___/ "...and bla..." At least I know my mouth is running, I just can't find the off button! ############################################################## # You can find my public gpg key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu/ # ############################################################## -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBP2OTRZ/61mwhY94RAkhYAJ0Rvlq+GiEexR7U5vnNbMTm0HNEGgCgpGiX VRCOSVG+TK2siORHzCShkFw= =OMDA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
