Weird tcsh question

[Kenny Donahue]

/bin is way down in my $PATH. That was one of my first thoughts.
Like I said, this is no big deal. It was just a typo and I was wondering
why I got the results I did. Google (for once) was no help.
Please don't waste time on this. I thought someone might know off the top
of their head.
Thanks,
Kenny



Kevin D. Clark wrote:

>Kenny Donahue <kennyd at mc.com> writes:
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>>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:
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>>Kenny on somemachine% .
>>/bin/.: Permission denied.
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>>No big deal but it got me wondering.
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>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.
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>--kevin
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