On 2003-02-23, Alex Shnitman wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 14:54, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > > > On a second thought, having '.' in the *end* of the path is almost safe. > > Still, if you want to be completely safe, you shouldn't do even that -- > I bet you sometimes type e.g. "ls-l" or "l s-l", and these typos can be > taken advantage of just as the real commands. > I work on a home computer and I'm not that paranoid but to prevent my own mistakes I take the more predictible aproach ["In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess." -- The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters] and don't have '.' even in my user's path. Thank's for everybody's concern in any case ;-).
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