users as blobs
Jeremy C. Reed
reed at reedmedia.net
Mon Sep 4 10:12:49 PDT 2006
> By contrast, *n*x is often irritating in that one can be sitting in the
> same dir as a given binary, but if it is not on the PATH, still have to
> prepend at least a './' - if not the entire path - in order to invoke
> said binary.
>
> Even CP/M or DOS ain't *that* picky!
Append . to your PATH.
(Search about security issues with dot in the execution path. Make some
trojan tools with common typos and misspellings as filenames and wait for
a superuser to make a typo while in the directory you put the file.
And never put the dot early in your PATH.)
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