symlink for a command - affected by its location

[Sabniveesu Shashank]

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 4:30 AM, k t <tk at sawada-co.tk> wrote:

> 2013/5/17 Sabniveesu Shashank <shashank16392 at gmail.com>:
> >
> > 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]
>
> What happened when "it didn't work"?
>  command not found : node  ???
>
> --
>
yes k t
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