Dot in PATH?

[Brian Fennell]

In article <1423 at tau.sm.luth.se> d87-man at sm.luth.se (Mikael Adolfsson) writes:
>bob at wyse.wyse.com (Bob McGowen x4312 dept208) writes:
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>deleted discussion...
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>>PATH=:/usr/lbin...<rest of path deleted>
>>    ^^
>>This is a null path entry which defautlt to dot.  You can have null
>>entries anywhere by either placing two colons together (::) or placing
>>a single colon at the beginning (as you did) or at the end.
>
>This is not true for BASH.
>At least version 1.05.11 allow null entries
>without interpreting them as dot.

That is definately a bug in BASH!
Even brain-dead csh fools with "path" and leaves "PATH" in standard
format.

And I thought bash was suposed to be a great shell.  I am shattered.

Brian Fennell == fenn at wpi.wpi.edu