[Remind-Fans] remind install issue on os x (10.4.6)

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 17/04/06 Joachim Schulz said:

> Mike,
> bingo!
> Did what you suggested and it works.
> Now, what does that mean? (other than that I need to get a clue...)

Basically that. :)

When you run a command without a full path, any shell, DOS included, searches
the PATH environment variable for a list of directories to search for the
command. 

Look in your shell's documentation. 

man bash # for the bash shell, but I think you said Mac-OSX, so
man tcsh # for the inferior t-shell. ;-)

Newbie mistake. All shells work this way, except that DOS automagickally adds
the current directory to your PATH, which is dangerous, so Unix shells don't. 

[msoulier at tigger ~]$ echo $PATH | tr ':' '\012'
/home/msoulier/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_04/bin
/usr/kerberos/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/X11R6/bin

Mike

-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction." --Albert Einstein
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