Re: qsh: 001-0014 Error

I got curious as to why UNIX behaves this way...

It appears it was done by design to prevent you from accidentally
running a script in the current directory instead of a system command
you intended. i.e. you navigate to a users directory and type ls to
see the contents, unbeknownst to you the user had created a script
named ls....

Apparently the UNIX standard way of saying you want to execute a
program/script in the current directory is to prefix the command with
./

Which as I look back at the OP, seems to be what Brain was doing....so
I'm not sure why he was getting an error! :)

Charles

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dennis,

What I mean is that by default, the current directory isn't searched.

As Roger mentions, I think you can add the . to your path, but it does
have to be explicitly added.

In contrast to DOS/Widows/IBM i where the current directory (library
for the i) is implicitly searched.  Though perhaps the i is not really
implict...as a DSPLIBL shows the current library explicitly enough :)

Perhaps reversing the statement, on DOS/Windows/IBM i, you can't
prevent the current directory (library) from being searched.  On
UNIX/Linux you can by leaving the . out of your path.

Charles