symlink for a command - affected by its location

[Sabniveesu Shashank]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:

> 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?
>
> --
> Avi
>
> --
>
Actual location of command- ~/Sources/nodejs/bin/node
Command -   cd "-->till 'bin "
                   sudo ln -s node /usr/bin  [executing 'node' didn't work]
                   sudo ln -s node /usr/local/bin  [executing 'node' worked
as expected]
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