> This _does_ help. It's mysterious enough that I tested it, and it seems to
> work except that it removes "." from any path. This is not quite what I want.
Glad it was almost a success ;) Interesting, thats not something I
noticed before, I have never wished "." in my PATH, I should point out
of course that "." in your PATH is a security risk waiting to happen
;)
Open to debate. I'd think it's not very dangerous at the *end* of the PATH.
The usual worry is a Trojan masquerading as a normal utility, chosen
early because of the order of things in the searchpath. When I use ".", I
put it at the end. It's no worse than the fairly common ~/bin in a searchpath,
which I'd actually rate more dangerous --
1) It's just as hard/easy to put something in ~/bin as in ~/
2) It's more likely to go unnoticed in ~/bin
And, since I do lots of development of itsy-bitsy scripts and C programs,
I'm using such stuff all the time.
Nevertheless it should not be removing the entry unless its a dup. I
have quickly confirmed the behaviour it is defn stripping all "."
entries.
*sigh* the script needs some work .. I'll play with it again tomorrow....
Thanks for the feedback,
Mark
Thanks...
++ kevin
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
