Wrong information?
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| Author | Content |
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| smallboxadmin Jan 19, 2012 12:43 PM EDT |
Quoting:If you prefix the dot and the slash, the absolute path is passed to the shell... Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought $ ./filename It would have been nice if the author would have mentioned the security implications of having your home directory as part of the PATH environment variable. |
| skelband Jan 19, 2012 12:53 PM EDT |
Yeah, I think the ghist is that if you specify a relative path, then $PATH has no involvement. Agreed, having '.' in your $PATH is a pretty bad idea, particularly so for root. |
| abdullah Jan 19, 2012 3:06 PM EDT |
smallboxadmin wrote: I thought $ ./filename was a relative path and not a absolute path. Thanks for the comment - the path is certainly relative to the current directory. I've edited the article accordingly. I've also included a warning to refrain from adding '.' to the PATH permanently. |
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