From: Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr (Pierre A. Humblet)
Subject: Re: cygwin b20 bash path usage?
12 Nov 1998 09:40:25 -0800
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To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com, William D Kirby <wdkirby AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>,
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At 07:21 PM 11/10/98 -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
>No.  The current working directory is only searched if you contain a .
>(period character) in the PATH variable list.  If you want it to be
>searched first then you'll need to place it first in the PATH; but,
>this isn't good security practices.
>
That's not my experience with bash and ash
They find commands in the current directory as long as PATH has an empty
component (or contains .) .
~: cat findit
#!/bin/sh
echo You found me
~: PATH=/bin
~: findit
BASH.EXE: findit: command not found
~: PATH=
~: findit
You found me
~: PATH=/bin:
~: findit
You found me
~:

Pierre

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