running a simple command line tool
CJ Tres
ctres at grics.net
Wed Feb 22 14:49:17 UTC 2012
On 02/22/2012 08:36 AM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
>
> If you enter simply the name of what you want to run, like
>
> $ natool
>
> Then your shell will try to find it in your $PATH. $PATH is a variable
> that contains a colon-delimited list of directories in which you can
> expect to find binaries to run (run echo $PATH if you're interested
> in what they are.
>
> If you want to run a command outside of the $PATH you need to provide
> the path to it. If it's in your current directory, that's simply './',
> so you might do
>
> $ ./natool
>
> to run natool in your current directory, and ../natool to run something
> called natool in your parent directory. What you probably want,
> therefore, is:
>
> ./natool --neuros-path /mnt/neuros dirsync ~/music/ my_music dbsync
>
Yes. I could have been a bit more detailed.
I did try ./natool also, from within and outside the dir that hold the
binary.
Natool (or rather natool) gets the result "No command 'natool' found..."
./natool results in "./natool: No such file or directory" wherever it is
run from.
Time to email the dev again I guess.
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