Executing paths should be supported

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, shell
Domain
cli, operating-systems

Research direction

Start at the shx command handling for local executable paths and compare how the ./local/path/executable form is interpreted on Unix and Windows. Done means shx ./local/path/executable reliably executes a local executable with equivalent behavior across both platforms; no test location is specified in the issue.

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Description

feat

I'd like a cross-platform way of executing local executables, e.g. under *nix I can currently:

./local/path/executable

this doesn't work under windows because of the path representation ./.

I was hoping I could run:

shx ./local/path/executable

But that doesn't seem to be supported.

Thanks! Otherwise awesome job!

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