finding things in unix

[Joe Chasan]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:56:45PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> On 4/23/2010 3:49 PM, Dennis Malen wrote:
> > cd /
> > type rabpay042210.xls
> >
> > Not found.
> >
> > It resides in /tmp.
> [...]
> 
> I bet /tmp is not in $PATH.

or that rabpay042210.xls is not executable since 'type' looks for actual
commands.

you need to see $PATH and permissions of rabpay042210.xls to answer
that.

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