finding things in unix

[Dennis Malen]

Yes, those all work. But when looking for a specific file it does not unless 
you are sitting in the directory.

Dennis Malen
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: finding things in unix


> 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
>
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody