Richard Owlett: > > SEE https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/03/msg01167.html > > Where I said "I was not aware that search engines accepted > non-alphanumeric strings as legitimate search terms. Previous experience > had suggested otherwise. > > Thank you, this old dog has learned a new trick. > > P.S. Fourth hit of https://www.google.com/search?q=~/+tutorial was > David's first link ;/
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 But let's say you want to download and run a variation of this package, edit its source and modify it, or just want to run separately a standalone package in /xyz/packageX/pkgX If you $cd /xyz/packageX and then $ ./pkgX the standalone would run, right? While pkgX will run the /usr/bin/pkgX Alternatively in creating a local web-page set the ./index.html as the site's root directory can easily be implemented in domain.net/index.html and all links ./****.html will work on the remote site. PS off-topic rant I just updated and a package named busybox came up. Since I didn't know what it was I went into the page and its most recent revision of 1/2017 seemed to be 3 years ahead of the testing/unstable version that we just updated now! And this is very basic common stuff like cp and fdisk ...... How conservative is our system? Wowww!
