finding things in unix

Fri Apr 23 14:36:43 PDT 2010

That is correct. The file is not an executable. So that explains the 
difference. Thanks!

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Chasan" <joe at magnatechonline.com>
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Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: finding things in unix

> 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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