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From:	dmoore@sdnp1.UCSD.EDU (David Moore)
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To:	culliton@srg.af.mil (Tom Culliton x2278)
Cc:	rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: Command execution
In-Reply-To: Tom Culliton x2278's message of Wed June 24, 191992, at 17:19:34
References: <9206241719.aa07461@ceres.srg.af.mil>

Tom Culliton writes:
 
| >>				Contrary to the documentation, Duff's rc
| >> and Byron's behave the *same* for 'foo/bar', and at least Rob Pike a)
| >> thinks this is a good thing and b) uses this feature.
| 
| This iregularity troubles me more, but thats just because odd little
| gotchas set my teeth on edge, and in almost any other unix context
| "x/y" is identical to "./x/y".  Could you say more about why Pike
| thinks this is good and what you would use it for?

	I use this all of the time.  At first I found it strange that
'x/y' wasn't './x/y' but I quickly retrained.  Also, I don't have '.'
in my path so I'm well used to using './' in front of things as needed.

Now, the reason I use this.  I some subdirectories of binaries that I
use occasionally, but don't want to pay the performance hit of leaving them
in my path.  Also, I just don't want them in my path because of some name
conflicts with std programs.

Example: I do have '/usr/local/bin' in my path.  If I want to run the
file '/usr/local/bin/cap/atlook VA', as I do once or twice a week, I
just do 'cap/atlook VA' and it does it.  I find this very convenient
and I like it better than having a function named 'atlook' which
knew where to go.

I currently have a hosts directory of machines I log into also.  I've been
thinking of removing this from my path, and just using 'hosts/foo' to get
to them.

| Tom


David

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