finding things in unix

[Kenneth Brody]

On 4/23/2010 11:20 AM, Dennis Malen wrote:
> For AIX if you cd to / and type p it works. If I type in a full name of
> a file at / it does not work and responds with not found. If I go into
> the directory that it resides in it does work.
[...]

Can you give some specific examples?  The current directory makes no 
difference to "type", unless "." is in PATH, and it's not found elsewhere.

What about these?

   cd /
   type p
   cd /tmp
   type p
   cd /appl/filepro/zipcodes
   type p

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Kenneth Brody