Stoopid script failure

[Ed Greshko]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Can anyone explain why this doesn't work? I've been writing shell
> scripts on and off for several decades and I can't see what's going on
> here. Is senility setting it?
>
> $ cat > tst
> #!/bin/sh
> echo foo
> $ chmod +x tst
> $ ls -l tst
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 poc poc 19 2010-02-06 10:22 tst
> $ type tst
> tst is ./tst
> $ tst
> bash: ./tst: Permission denied
>
> (SElinux is off, if it matters).
>
>   
I'm fairly sure you need the ./tst incantation unless you have . in your
$PATH.  I recall somewhere, sometime a warning against that....but I've
ignored it for years and haven't had a problem.  I even forgot what the
warning was all about.


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