what is the difference?

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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It would appear that on Sep 8, Björn Persson did say:

> Note that the "./directory/file" syntax isn't only used in shell scripts. Nor
> is it specifically for executing programs. It's simply a way to reference a
> file relative to the current directory. "." is the current directory, "./file"
> is a file in the current directory, and "./directory/file" is a file in a
> subdirectory of the current directory.

Probably Deepak was thinking ./path/filename was for executing programs
because the default execution path on most linux systems doesn't include .
(for very good reasons of course) And if you want to run a program from
the current directory (when said directory isn't specifically in the
users path) then ./filename or /absolutepathtodir/filename is needed.

It should be noted however that the example Deepak used of:
. /etc/sysconfig/sendmail
would only attempt execution of the same file as:
./etc/sysconfig/sendmail 
if, the user is currently in the root "/" directory. 

That is if the user was in /root for example, then 
./etc/sysconfig/sendmail 
would try to execute /root/etc/sysconfig/sendmail and most likely not
find any such file.

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