> You generally shouldn’t use absolute paths in your programs. This is true, but I was enjoying the irony that there is an old sys-sdmin adage that you should

> You generally shouldn’t use absolute paths in your programs. This is true, but I was enjoying the irony that there is an old sys-sdmin adage that you should only use absolute paths in your program(usually a shell script, in this environment) this is to make sure it is running exactly what you expect it to run. So always put "/usr/bin/awk" instead of just "awk" I had a co-worker once who took this as gospel. His scripts were always... interesting... to port to a new environment.