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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Understanding $PATH better Post 302949678 by rbatte1 on Tuesday 14th of July 2015 10:13:49 AM
Old 07-14-2015
If the executable is /home/execs/testing/compare, then you will either need to:-
  • Give it the full path in your script, i.e. call /home/execs/testing/compare
  • Ensure that /home/execs/testing is in your PATH
  • Ensure that /home/execs/testing is your current directory (and . is in the PATH)
In all cases, it would have to give you read & execute privilege, else the shell will ignore it when searching down the path or fail permissions if you give it as a full path.

Can you do a whence compare or which compare just before you call compare?

Perhaps the output from file /home/execs/testing/compare would help too.



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cpurc

CPURC(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  CPURC(8)

NAME

       cpurc, termrc - boot script

SYNOPSIS

       cpurc

       termrc

DESCRIPTION

       After  the  kernel boots, it execs /boot (see root(3)), which in turn execs /$cputype/init.  Init(8) sets the $service environment variable
       to cpu or terminal, and then invokes the appropriate rc script to bring the system up.

       Based on the values of $sysname and $terminal these scripts start appropriate network processes and administrative daemons and enable swap-
       ping.  Cpurc sets /env/boottime to the time cpurc was executed and /env/NPROC to a value suitable for parallel compilation in mk(1).

       These files should be edited by local installations to reflect the configuration of their systems.

SOURCE

       /rc/bin/cpurc
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SEE ALSO

       srv(4), namespace(6), dkconfig(8), init(8), listen(8)

																	  CPURC(8)
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