Dot in PATH?

Mikael Adolfsson d87-man at sm.luth.se
Wed Feb 6 16:16:49 AEST 1991


bob at wyse.wyse.com (Bob McGowen x4312 dept208) writes:

deleted discussion...

>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.

-- 
Mikael Adolfsson            # d87-man at sm.luth.se
University of Lulea, Sweden # ...{uunet,mcsun}!sunic!sm.luth.se!d87-man



More information about the Comp.unix.shell mailing list