Question

Inside of Bash or Windows (or any other shell), is it needed to do

./script/generate scaffold foo name:string

instead of just using

script/generate  ...

? I do see the first form sometimes, but the second form always works for me, on Mac OS X or Ubuntu, even if the PATH doesn’t include the . (current directory)

So can the second form always work, so the first form is really not needed? I think for executable, we sometimes use ./a.out to run it… but seems like maybe script/generate doesn’t need the ./ in front?

Answer 1

They mean exactly the same thing.

Starting from the current directory, select a subdirectory called ‘script’ and in it an executable called ‘generate’ and run it.

The difference is that with ./ you’re explicitly specifying the current directory and without it, it’s implicit.