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Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 15:25:01 -0500 (CDT)
From: Ares <mich0101 AT tc DOT umn DOT edu>
To: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
cc: dye053 <mitia AT nwu DOT edu>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: B20.1: Scripts not executed in the current directory (bash)
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Or you can invoke the script (or any other executable) with ./foo.pl. I
can't speak much for the Cygwin world, but in the Linux world, this is SOP
for security reasons.

JDM

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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Chris Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 02:18:22PM -0500, dye053 wrote:
> >In B20.1 I noticed a problem that I didn't have with B20 release:
> >
> >In bash, scripts with shebang (#!) are not excuted in the current
> >directory, although they are correctly identified as executable files by
> >ls.  On the other hand, scripts located in a different directory are
> >executed without a problem.
> >
> >A workaround is to call the interpreter explicitly, e.g. perl foo.pl
> >
> >Anyone else have this problem?
> 
> Set your PATH environment variable to include the current directory.
> 
> -chris
> 
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