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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