Pollywog wrote: > You could make a directory $HOME/bin and put your shell scripts there, and > also add it to your PATH in your user .profile: > > PATH=$PATH:/home/username/bin > > export PATH > > That would be better than just adding "." to your PATH.
even better might be using $HOME rather than "/home/username", since $HOME is set already and homedir sometimes change. PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin (assumuing bash for login shell, others similar) but that's turning out kind'a academic talk... ;-) gerhard