On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:28, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Anyway, bash uses .bash_profile for this purpose. If you add > the line > > PATH=:$PATH > > to this file, or, if there is a line that extends $PATH in any way, then > add a : immediately after the =, then this modifies it so that it looks in > your current directory first. Isn't that considered a rather dangerous no no? Much safer imho to put the current directory at the end of the PATH. vis:-
export PATH=$PATH:. -- C. S.
