On Fri 04 Nov 2016 at 20:37:53 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/4/2016 7:54 PM, John L. Ries wrote: > >Any chance the current directory is not in your path? > > > > That's not a mere 'scary' thought, > it is a *TERRIFYING* thought :<
Steady on... > "Why?" you may ask. > " 'cause it implies an intrinsic failure of *nix documentation." Or of someone to read it. > What should I "be reading"/"have read" ? man bash (Put whatever shell you use.) Anyone changing their $PATH should make themselves aware of the danger of adding . explicitly, or even implicitly by, say, thinking that : is a delimiter rather than a separator, or by screwing up a parameter substitution and ending up with :: anywhere in the $PATH. The current working directory is included here three times—at the beginning, middle and end. :/usr/bin::/bin:. One other point. I see you use spaces in your filenames. Regardless of this, you should quote your strings in such as FILENAME=$F$N$E Cheers, David.
