Stoopid script failure
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 15:42:50 UTC 2010
On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 10:26 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> 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?
>
> It may be, but it brings with it many benefits -- like being able to
> eat dessert twice because you "forgot" you'd had cake already. ;)
>
> > $ tst
> > bash: ./tst: Permission denied
>
> '.' is not in $PATH (by default and for good reason), so you must
> specify ./tst to run the script.
I know . isn't in $PATH by default. I added it to $PATH before doing
this, as evidenced by the "type tst" line in my post.
Furthermore, I also get:
$ ./tst
bash: ./tst: Permission denied
$
poc
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