Permissions

the_crow · Post by **the_crow** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 9:16 am

hello to all

I need some help.
I don't know what permissions to do in a file.
Inicialy the file runs with the ./ but i don't want to run the file with ./
Sorry my english... let me show you a exemple.

Exemple:

./eggdrop -m teste

eggdrop -m teste ( what i want)

thanks

]Kami[ · Post by **]Kami[** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 10:01 am

HuH.I think this is deep in linux.I dont think is so easy to change....

Turambar · Post by **Turambar** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 10:55 am

you can't change that
you nee to run it with ./ because the eggdrop is not installed on the whole system by root but only is yours.
I'm not 100% shure but i think that's it

feel free to correct me

Post by **Sir_Fz** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 4:19 pm

I don't see where's the problem in adding 2 extra characters ./ ?

spock · Post by **spock** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 5:52 pm

add the eggdrop dir to your PATH variable

Souperman · Post by **Souperman** » Wed Dec 31, 2003 3:17 am

]Kami[ wrote:HuH.I think this is deep in linux.I dont think is so easy to change....

Actually it's trivially easy to change ... when you type a command into your shell (bash, csh, tcsh, etc), it looks for the program in each directory listed in the PATH environment variable. The reason you have to run a lot of programs with "./" prefixed is because you are telling the shell that the program is in the current directory (which isn't normally in the PATH in most *nix setups). "./" means "the current working directory", just like "../" means "the parent directory of the current working directory". To add the current directory to your PATH, add the following to ~/.bash_profile:

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export PATH=$PATH:.