On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 11:27:01 +0200, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > Wildman writes: > > [snip] > >> If anyone is interested the correct way is to add this to >> /etc/profile (at the bottom): >> >> PATH=$PATH:./ >> export PATH > > Out of interest, can you think of a corresponding way that a mere user > can remove the dot from their $PATH after some presumably well-meaning > system administrator has put it there? > > Is there any simple shell command for it? One that works whether the dot > is at the start, in the middle, or at the end, and with or without the > slash, and whether it's there more than once or not at all. > > And I'd like it to be as short and simple as PATH="$PATH:.", please.
No, I do not know. You might try your question in a linux specific group. Personally I don't understand the danger in having the dot in the path. The './' only means the current directory. DOS and Windows has searched the current directory since their beginning. Is that also dangerous? -- <Wildman> GNU/Linux user #557453 The cow died so I don't need your bull! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
