> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Lionel Dyck
> 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

DANGER WILL ROBINSON! DANGER WILL ROBINSON! DANGER WILL ROBINSON!

If . (dot) is in your path at all, make sure it is LAST, and don't EVER do this 
for root. 

You don't want to accidentally pick up a "user-created" script in place a real 
utility. Imagine what happens if the user has a "rm" script in the current dir, 
and "rm" contains "rm -rf /*" and you happen to be root at the time. 

Don't do it. Wouldn't be prudent. 

--d b

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