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Re: cygwin b20 bash path usage?
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: cygwin b20 bash path usage?
- From: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 11 Nov 1998 21:42:00 +0100
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Hi William,
>I made the mistake of creating and trying to use an exectable named
>test.exe. under bash v2.02 in the cygwin beta 20 package. Nothing
>happened when it executed. I suspect that bash was executing the program
>test.exe in the cygwin-b20\bin directory rather my test.exe in the
>directory I was using.
>
>Is this proper behavior in bash? I assumed the directory being worked in
>was searched first then along the PATH directory list.
No, this isn't the behaviour for a typical U*ix shell, but for the
Windows command prompt. In a U*ix shell comamnds in the actual directory
only get executed, if you have ".", i.e the actual directory in your PATH.
This, however, is considered a big security hole due to trojans.
Concensus seems to be to have "." in your PATH, but not as the first
directory, i.e. PATH=/foo/bar:.
>
>Bill
Bye.
Michael.
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