[Swift-devel] Re: Finding apps via $PATH

[Ben Clifford]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Mats Rynge wrote:

> > Omit the path in a tc.data entry (eg say echo instead of /bin/echo) and 
> > $PATH will be used to look up the executable. This is in SVN head and also 
> > in the 0.7 release.
> 
> Note that on OSG you will find that most sites have no or a very minimal
> $PATH.

RIght. In that case, its probably most useful in conjunction with 
PATHPREFIX so that you can define your application bin directory once per 
site, rather than once per executable per site.

I think it should also work nicely with the SoftEnv RSL options available 
on teragrid (though I haven't tried).

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