[KLUG Members] why need executable absolute path?

[Wesley Leonard]

The short answer is security.

I could create a script file called "ls" and put it in the tmp dir and if
you were poking around in there and you typed "ls" to see the files my
script would do whatever naughty stuff it wanted.
You don't have to do the full path ( /home/yourdir/somefile ), you can
just do this:
../somefile


You COULD add your current directory to your PATH environment variable but
I'd be nervous about doing it on a multi user system...
l8er


> While in a subdirectory, I can type
>
> vi somefile
>
> It will open because the file (somefile) is in the current directory.
> But, if the file is executable, I can't type
>
> somefile
>
> I have to type
>
> /home/somedir/somefile
>
> Why is that?
>
> kind regards,
>
> bill
>
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Wesley Leonard

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