Wildman writes: > 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?
I'd just like to be able to decide for myself. (Which I am, of course. In shell it's just more annoying to remove than it is to add, as far as I know.) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list