imho that is not a bad habit to have, what's the harm? you don't always know how the script/application behaves. sometimes they do things in relation to where y

imho that is not a bad habit to have, what's the harm? you don't always know how the script/application behaves. sometimes they do things in relation to where you are standing. if you mean the newbies cd into a location in $PATH though, i.e.: cd /bin, cd /usr/bin etcetera I agree, that doesn't make sense usually