Walt Mankowski via plug on 1 Jun 2023 11:10:27 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] zsh: command not found:


Agreed. The home directories are under /Users on macOS, whereas on
Linux they're under /home.

On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 01:23:58PM -0400, Aaron Mulder via plug wrote:
> I don’t think that’s it.  I think what fixed it is changing /home/ron/bin
> to ~/bin because your home directory isn’t under /home on macOS.  I think
> if you change it to /home/ron/bin:$PATH then it will stop working.
> 
> Thanks,
>      Aaron
> 
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 1:16 PM Ron Guilmet via plug <
> plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > No my issue ended up settling the path incorrectly. I didn’t append the
> > path variable. I put the path variable first. It seemed to after appending
> > the path variable after the path for whatever reason
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Jun 1, 2023, at 11:20 AM, Walt Mankowski via plug <
> > plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > I was wondering about that too, but I'd forgotten that he said he was
> > > on macOS. That's got to be what was causing his error!
> > >
> > > Walt
> > >
> > >> On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 09:43:41AM -0400, Aaron Mulder via plug wrote:
> > >> Wait, so the original error was using /home/ron/bin instead of
> > >> /Users/ron/bin?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>       Aaron
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 9:18 AM Walt Mankowski via plug <
> > >> plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 11:19:28PM -0400, JP Vossen via plug wrote:
> > >>>> On 5/31/23 10:36 PM, Gary Duzan via plug wrote:
> > >>>>>> I always do #!/bin/sh
> > >>>>>> But I've seen lots of others use #!/usr/bin/env bash
> > >>>>>> What's the advantage of the latter?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>    It gets bash from the PATH instead of whatever specific path you
> > >>>>> specify. If you have a non-standard setup, or if you want to use a
> > >>>>> different version installed elsewhere, this can be a benefit. It
> > could
> > >>>>> also be a security issue if you accidentally put something insecure
> > in
> > >>>>> your PATH and you end up running a worm called "bash" from there.
> > I've
> > >>>>> seen the end trick most often with python, presumably from the days
> > >>>>> when it wasn't standard equipment, so you ended up putting it in
> > >>>>> /usr/local/bin or $HOME/bin or something. My NetBSD systems have it
> > in
> > >>>>> /usr/pkg/bin.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> What Gary said, but also don't use `sh` when you mean `bash`.  That
> > used
> > >>> to Just Work on Linux (but not elsewhere), but since about 2016 it's
> > not
> > >>> reliable on Linux either, due to use of `dash` as `sh` instead of the
> > much
> > >>> larger and thus slower `bash`.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I'm torn on the hard-code vs. `env` approach.  `env` is more portable,
> > >>> but there are possible path/poisoning issues as noted.  `#!/bin/bash`
> > is
> > >>> just easier to type and more familiar.  :-)
> > >>>
> > >>> Another advantage of using the `env` approach with python and perl is
> > >>> that it lets you use tools like pyenv and plenv to switch the version
> > >>> of the interpreter you're using without having to change your code or
> > >>> your system python/perl.
> > >>>
> > >>> Walt
> > >>>
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