From: Paul Guyot (pguyot_at_kallisys.net)
Date: Fri Jan 07 2005 - 10:37:19 PST
Aux environs du 7/01/05 à 17:35 +0000, sous le titre "Re: [NTLK]
Finally !! Einstein on my iMac!! WOW - How I", octarine prit sa plus
belle plume pour écrire les mots suivants:
>On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:31:12PM -0500, ADyson wrote:
>> I don't get it. Maybe I will someday. I never thought I'll say
>>this. Windows directory structure
>> seems so easy to use and intuative.
>>
>You can acheive the same effect as DOS by adding the current
>directory to your path:
>
>export PATH=$PATH:.
>
>(adding a similar line into your login profile will make the change
>permanent).
However, adding . to the path, even at the end, is a security hole
because you may execute a program in a directory without being aware
of it.
./einstein
means
execute binary which is at ./einstein, i.e. in current directory.
Paul
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