The reason why you dont have the current dir "." in your path is
that if somebody put put for example "ls" in his home dir, which are
in fact a script "rm -rf /" then you would execute that script berore
your real ls (if you have put . before /bin in you path).
If you plan to put . in your(as a user) path (never as root) put
it at the end.
still people can put scripts that destroy your data.
Some idiots put scrips like sl (easily typed) which are
executed when you brain is working to fast ; ).
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Ola Hamfors
m96_...@nada.kth.se
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