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

[Joachim Schulz]

Thanks!
I can't believe I never looked at the PATH (hand slapping forehead)
Will dig around in the shell documentation. Earlier today I've also  
bought a hefty book on unix for os x users - judging by its weight  
(1/4 ton) it must be good... :)
Thanks again,
Joachim



On Apr 17, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> 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>
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> takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
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