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Lost my Way
I want to execute my own utilities from my bin folder without having to specify paths at run time - i.e. just enter name on command line - to do
this my search path needs to be set up at login time - when I do this the path is not getting set right apparently(?) - PATH echos OK but the search
path is not functioning(?) until I set it at the prompt -
For example:
--------------------------------------------------
login as: bstansel
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:
Last login: Thu Jan 31 10:52:06 2008 from administrator
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005
-bash-3.00$ echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/adminhome/bstansel/bin
-bash-3.00$ LookFor . skip
-bash: LookFor: command not found
-bash-3.00$ PATH=/usr/bin:/adminhome/bstansel/bin
-bash-3.00$ LookFor . skip
./gorm
-bash-3.00$
-bash-3.00$ cat .profile
# This is the default standard profile provided to a user.
# They are expected to edit it to meet their own needs.
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
MAIL=/usr/mail/${LOGNAME:?}
-bash-3.00$
--------------------------------------------
It looks like the profile is working OK - the PATH looks OK - but the
LookFor utility is not found until after PATH is (re?)set - at which time it is found - ???

AHA (All Help Appreciated)

Many Thanks
 
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time(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   time(1)

Name
       time - time a command

Syntax
       time command
       /bin/time command

Description
       The  command  lets  the specified command execute and then outputs the amount of elapsed real time, the time spent in the operating system,
       and the time spent in execution of the command.	Times are reported in seconds and are written to standard error.

       If you are using any shell except the C shell, you can give the command as shown on the first line of the Syntax section.  If you are using
       the  C shell, you must use the command's full pathname as shown on the second line of the Syntax section.  If you do not use the full path-
       name, will execute its own built-in command that supplies additional information and uses a different output format.

       The command can be used to cause a command to be timed no matter how much CPU time it takes.  For example:
       % /bin/time cp /etc/rc /usr/bill/rc
	       0.1 real 	0.0 user	 0.0 sys
       % /bin/time nroff sample1 > sample1.nroff
	       3.6 real 	2.4 user	 1.2 sys
       This example indicates that the command used negligible amounts of user and system time and had an elapsed time of 1/10 second (0.1).   The
       command used 2.4 seconds of user time and 1.2 seconds of system time, and required 3.6 seconds of elapsed time.

Restrictions
       Times are measured to an accuracy of 1/10 second.  Thus, the sum of the user and system times can be larger than the elapsed time.

See Also
       csh(1)

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