Weird tcsh question

[Kevin D. Clark]

Kenny Donahue <kennyd at mc.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> I have a weird tcsh question ask.
> in both Linux and Solaris if try and execute . I get either
> /usr/sbin/. : permision deinied
> or in Lunux /bin/. :Permission denied. What is happening?
> Example:
>
> Kenny on somemachine% .
> /bin/.: Permission denied.
>
> No big deal but it got me wondering.

tcsh is trying to execute "/bin/." because "/bin" is the first
directory in your PATH environment variable.  "/bin" + "." equals
"/bin/." and since this exists, tcsh is trying to execute that.

--kevin
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