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From: doelz@urz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: RE: . in $path
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Date: 12 Apr 90 16:06:00 GMT
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The *root* may not use it, otherwise it's fine. Imagine you're su'ing around
and some weird guy aliased ls to rm. If you're in his dir as root, you
might easily do a strange 'ls' because the . is always executed first
before looking in others like /bin or /usr/bin. The . in root's path,
therefore, is ugly, but elsewhere you're biting your own neck.

- Reinhard