From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 5 07:18:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA26062 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 07:18:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from prepaid.atlas.com (atlas-198.atlas.com [206.29.170.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA26054 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 07:18:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Brian_Beattie@Atlas.com) Received: from coyote.prepaid.atlas.com(really [10.16.7.71]) by prepaid.atlas.com via sendmail with smtp id for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 07:17:55 -0800 (PST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1 built 1998-Jan-29) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 07:17:43 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie X-Sender: Brian_Beattie@coyote.prepaid.atlas.com To: tim@v-com.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perl: scripts to commands...weird In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19980305075844.006cffc0@v-com.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 tim@v-com.com wrote: > > 3. I have to move it into one of the bin directories that is in my shell > path. (I'm using csh as default) Thats what path is for and unlike DOS the current directory is not in the path, unless explictly listed. > 4. I have to launch another shell or log out and log back in to my current > one for it all to take effect. > This is because csh keeps a hash table of executables, I forget the exact rules, in your path. Try the rehash command, to get csh to rebuild it's hash Brian Beattie Atlas PrePaid Services Brian_Beattie@atlas.com 503.228.1400x4355 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message