Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!alice!andrew
From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: . in $path
Summary: another way
Message-ID: <10704@alice.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 90 04:29:38 GMT
References: <283:doelz@urz.unibas.ch> <1630@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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research unix has su in /etc, not bin, and as /etc is not normally
in $PATH, you get into the habit of saying /etc/su real fast.
as for system v style machines (like sgi), su is a botch in that it
is in /bin but i always invoke it directly as /bin/su.

it seems this is the only program that people quote as a real problem;
always invoking it as a full path seems preferable to not having . in $PATH.