Help with something basic

Saeven · 06-11-2002, 09:03 PM

Sup crew...

I have a really basic question..

I have a script in a directory ' /dir/area ' called 'start'

If my current directory is ' /dir/area ' and I type './start' the script works fine. However, if I am in /dir and I type ' area/start ' the thing doesn't work ( it references files from diff directories ).

Any idea? I need a one liner so that I can execute it from a php execute command.

thanks.
Saeven

finegan · 06-11-2002, 09:09 PM

area/start isn't in your path. If you typed out the complete directory /dir/area/start, you'd be fine because you told bash exactly where to go, or offhand if you put start in /usr/local/bin and then typed start, it would run because /usr/local/bin is in your path. See either your .bashrc file, .bash_profile or .profile file (depends of release, distro, era of shell-utils, blah blah blah which of those three it is and likes are your path is sourced from another file).

Cheers,

Finegan

sakeeb · 06-12-2002, 12:05 AM

type ./area/start

if you want to be able to run it by typing /area/start add current directory to you PATH environment variable

PATH=$PATH:.

also you can edit it in your ~/.bash_profile

trickykid · 06-12-2002, 04:03 AM

you could also make a symlink to it even, place the link in the /sbin, /usr/sbin.... etc..