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Subject: Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh,
	chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without "sh <script>"
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> This is a sort of 'don't shoot yourself in the foot' design.  You
> cannot run a script or binary simply by name if you're cwd is the
> directory that contains that script or binary.  IIRC, you can't cd /
> usr/bin and run anything in /usr/bin without explicitly calling that
> file with the ./ telling the system THIS ONE.

Ah!  You'd think any one of the many tutorials I read would have
mentioned that little detail ;)


Thanks, all
Steve