Executable confusion!

[Alan Dayley]

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Colin Rasor wrote:
> Alan,
> 
> which will only report the first file matching the expression in $PATH. The
> first matched is in the order listed in $PATH. To verify this echo $PATH and
> check which directories are listed first. Then execute find or locate with
> an expression that matches bin for your pilot-xfer program.

Thank you, Colin.

/usr/local/bin, where the new pilot-xfer is located, comes before
/usr/bin, where the old pilot-xfer is located.  Yet when I don't specify
the full path for the command, the /usr/bin version is executed.

I'm still confused.  Shouldn't the $PATH specify the order in which
commands are searched for?  There must be some other shell configuration
that redirects to /usr/bin first.

Alan
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