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From: rogpeppe@gmail.com (roger peppe)
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:53:17 +0000
Subject: [9fans] how can I set path
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On 25 March 2011 12:27, erik quanstrom <quanstro at quanstro.net> wrote:
>> I read that as allowing the shell to run programs that the kernel would
>> reject. ?I eventually understood it to mean that you can hide programs
>> where only the shell will find them. ?Is the current directory one of
>> those places, I wonder? ?I'm reluctant to figure it out for myself -
>> long day.
>
> try this:
>
> ? ? ? ?cd $home/tmp
> ? ? ? ?cat > diff
> ? ? ? ?#!/bin/rc
> ? ? ? ?echo hi!
> ? ? ? ?<EOT>
> ? ? ? ?chmod a+x diff
> ? ? ? ?history -D $somefile
> ? ? ? ?diff $somefile `{yesterday $somefile}
>

i always set $path to (/bin .)
it can be much faster, apart from anything else.