Re: qsh: 001-0014 Error

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

I got curious as to why UNIX behaves this way...

It appears it was done by design to prevent you from accidentally
running a script in the current directory instead of a system command
you intended.  i.e. you navigate to a users directory and type ls to
see the contents, unbeknownst to you the user had created a script
named ls....

Apparently the UNIX standard way of saying you want to execute a
program/script in the current directory is to prefix the command with
./

Which as I look back at the OP, seems to be what Brain was doing....so
I'm not sure why he was getting an error! :)

Charles

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dennis,
>
> What I mean is that by default, the current directory isn't searched.
>
> As Roger mentions, I think you can add the . to your path, but it does
> have to be explicitly added.
>
> In contrast to DOS/Widows/IBM i where the current directory (library
> for the i) is implicitly searched.  Though perhaps the i is not really
> implict...as a DSPLIBL shows the current library explicitly enough :)
>
> Perhaps reversing the statement, on DOS/Windows/IBM i, you can't
> prevent the current directory (library) from being searched.  On
> UNIX/Linux you can by leaving the . out of your path.
>
> Charles