symlink for a command - affected by its location

[Avi Greenbury]

Sabniveesu Shashank wrote:
> I created a symlink for an executable in /usr/bin which didn't work. But I
> created the same in /usr/local/bin which worked the way I expected. How are
> these two different?

Where was the symlink to, how did you create it, and what happened
when "it didn't work"? Do you still have the creation commands in your
history?

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Avi