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[Franck Pastor]

When I call a command, I don't put a dot before the command, I put  
nothing at all, only the file name. Thanks to this dot in the  
contents of my PATH variable, which means that this file name will be  
searched also in the current directory as well as /usr/bin or /usr/ 
ocal/bin.

But according to Herb Schulz, adding "." (the current directory) in  
the contents of my PATH variable could create security gap... Why?

Le 03-janv.-07 à 16:09, Jean-Claude DE SOZA a écrit :

> Frank,
> I thought we must put  ./  and not just a dot.  Am I wrong?
> Jean-Claude DE SOZA
>
> Le 3 janv. 07 à 16:00, Franck Pastor a écrit :
>
>>
>> Le 03-janv.-07 à 15:30, Jonathon Swiderski a écrit :
>>
>>> On 1/3/07, Jean-Claude DE SOZA <jeanclaudedesoza at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>>>> I've just checked your PATH
>>>>
>>>> /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/
>>>> texbin:~/bin:.:/Applications/mosek/4/tools/platform/osx32ppc/ 
>>>> bin:/usr/
>>>> X11R6/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current
>>>>
>>>> There is something strange in it; between ~/bin and /Applications/
>>>> mosek/4/tools/platform/osx32ppc/bin, there is a dot that looks  
>>>> useless.
>>>
>>> That would be for 'current directory'.
>>
>> Exactly. When I wish to execute a(n executable) file named  
>> "something" in the current directory, it allows me to type  
>> directly "something" in the Terminal, instead of "./something".  
>> Not indispensable at all, but more comfortable :-)
>>
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