Carl McNamee ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: I am curious about something that I have been running into in the posix
: shell.  Why do I have to qualify the name of a script to be run with "./"?
: If I have the script "test" in the directory "/SYS/CARL/" and I am in the
: CARL directory I have to run the test script by typing "./test".  Why can't
: I just type "test" and have it run?

It might be because your path doesn't include the current directory.

Or it might be because "test" is a Shell command.  That was my first
shock when I migrated from MPE to UNIX fifteen years ago.  I had been
using "test" for all my quick-and-dirty test programs, but that's a
command in UNIX.  So I started using "t" for everything.  When I went
back to MPE five years later, I had to switch back.  Most of the
systems I used had system-wide logon UDCs that contained
"FILE T;DEV=TAPE".  Sometimes you just can't win.

Walter