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Subject: Re: How to run bash shell script in cygwin?
From: Reid Thompson <Reid DOT Thompson AT ateb DOT com>
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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:50:36 -0400
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On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 07:47 -0700, on behalf of myuser01 wrote:
> Thanks for the help.  What does the ./ do, please be as detailed as possible?

http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/basic/path.shtml   

by default, the current working directory ( . ), is not in the PATH.
Using ./filename, provides the relative path to the executable to bash

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