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Re: Path Problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BORG)
Wed Oct 30 03:07:56 1996
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:13:26 -0800
From: BORG <vladimip@iceonline.com>
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Pedro Soria-Rodriguez wrote:
.....
> Is it impossible to add the current directory to the path?
> I have tried editing /etc/profile and also the user's individual
> .cshrc to add "." to the path, but with no luck. What's more: if I
> do:
> setenv PATH $PATH:.
> or setenv PATH $PATH:./.
> or setenv PATH $PATH:./
>
> and then I do "echo $PATH", the output does not include the dot (.).
It's really bad to have a dot in your path, at least,
that's the general consensus of this list participants
as I understood from the discussion on this matter. Yes,
this has been discussed three times on this list this year
and you might want to check archives. You should get used
to executing commands with prepending ./
Regards,
Vlad
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