On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 03:14:08PM -0700, Lionel Dyck wrote: > I haven't done it on Linux (yet) but on Windows I always put ;. in the > PATH so that it would always search the current path when I issued a > command - perhaps if I wasn't so fixated on the command line that wouldn't > have been an issue. > > That might be worth considering for Linux
You shouldn't do that there's the slightest possibility that you end up in an untrusted path (where somebody can drop executable files) with cd and execute something there (think of "ls"). That's why "." isn't in the PATH by default and normally shouldn't be. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Stable Release Manager `. `' xmpp:[email protected] Wanna-Build Admin `- finger pkern/[email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
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