From: dmeans AT bellsouth DOT net (David Means)
Subject: Re: Bash Question.
31 Jul 1997 10:04:30 -0700
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Bardley09 AT aol DOT com wrote:
> 
> This is probably elementary...but.  Bash doesn't recognize the current
> directory (i.e. pwd) and won't execute commands there unless it's
> in the path.  There must be a way to make it do that.  I confess I
> have not
> yet scoured the mail archives on this matter.
> 
> Brad
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Wei Ku answered your question, but here's my 2 cents worth:

It works like unix.  Unless you have a "." in your path, you have to
execute files in the current dir like this:

../runthis

If the file is hidden (i.e., .login; .profile) then you do this:

../.profile
../.login


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