Re: [CentOS] Probably a bad set-up but which one?

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:32 PM, fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:

two things:

1. there's already a program named test, which displays no output,

it merely has an exit status.

And, in general, it is a poor idea showing little imagination to name a test program "test."

2. for a program in your current directory, run it with a preceding "./",

e.g., "./test"--because "." is not in the path (and shouldn't be).

I rather like having . in my path, and up front. However, programs should reflect something of their content. The Hello World program could much more recognizably (and future-referentially) named "hello."

It's one of those mornings....

mhr