Converting .py files to batch files.

[r0g]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-09-17, r0g <aioe.org at technicalbloke.com> wrote:
> 
>> r0g at steppa:~/Desktop/py$ ls
>> kickstart.py  kickstart.py~  kicktest.py  kicktest.py~
>> r0g at steppa:~/Desktop/py$ kickstart.py
>> bash: kickstart.py: command not found
>>
>> Any ideas why this might be?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> A path thing?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Linux systems generally don't have the current directory in the
> PATH that's searched for executbles (it's regarded as a rather
> serious security problem if you do).
> 
> Try doing this:
> 
>  ./kickstart.py
> 

Brilliant! :D  Thanks v.much for that, turns out the very same thing had
been driving me nuts a few days earlier when I was trying to run an
installer I had downloaded, bit of an Izzard Printer moment LOL -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wHEqDepAXo

Thanks again!

Roger.

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