On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 00:54 +0100, ted.harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
('set', by the way, should work regardless of your PATH since it is a shell command and not a binary. On the other hand, if your PATH is empty, then 'echo $PATH' will not work, since 'echo' is in /bin. Nor will 'env', since it is also in /bin)).
A good point Ted !
of course if the path is the problem echo $PATH won't work 'set' is the way forward