Re: command line tools and $PATH

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

Hi,

tgate <tgate@mypublic.net> wrote: 
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> I'm going step by step through some of the learning material on line and
> I'm a bit confused by some of my results.
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> I'm following this (A First Tool):
> http://www.gnustep.it/nicola/Tutorials/WritingMakefiles/node2.html
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> when I compile and install, if I enter the full path the tool works
> fine, however if I only specify the tool without the path nothing returns.
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> %> which test
> ./test
> %> test
> %> ./test
> 2006-11-13 11:12:13.664 test[18076] This is the TEST program
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> why do I need to put in the full path?

just a guess, but I would say: man test
;)
this one might be catched by the PATH environent settings before it finds the
test in your 
directory.


kind regards
Sebastian