On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Chris Blouch wrote:
export PATH=./:$PATH
That adds the ./ location plus all the existing path settings. Now you should
be able to just run foo from wherever you are without putting the ./ in
front.
This is not recommended, however. All you need is some nasty script or
whatever to plonk something in your working directory that has the same
name as a standard system program (e.g. ls) and you could find yourself
running their nasty program instead of the program you meant to run.
Of course, if you used:
echo PATH=$PATH:.
instead, at least it would search in the standard search path before
finding your local binary. But personally I prefer just to type "./"
before whatever it is I want to run. At least I'm meaning to run the
program.
Geoff.
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