From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: cygwin b20 bash path usage?
13 Nov 1998 00:12:20 -0800
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To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr>,
        William D Kirby <wdkirby AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

---"Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr> wrote:
>
> At 07:21 PM 11/10/98 -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >
> >No.  The current working directory is only searched if you contain
a .
> >(period character) in the PATH variable list.  If you want it to be
> >searched first then you'll need to place it first in the PATH; but,
> >this isn't good security practices.
> >
> That's not my experience with bash and ash
> They find commands in the current directory as long as PATH has an
empty
> component (or contains .) .
> ~: cat findit
> #!/bin/sh
> echo You found me
> ~: PATH=/bin
> ~: findit
> BASH.EXE: findit: command not found
> ~: PATH=
> ~: findit
> You found me
> ~: PATH=/bin:
> ~: findit
> You found me
> ~:
> 
> Pierre
> 
> 

Is this a documented feature?  If not then it is most likely a bug and
will stop working this way in some future release?  Of course, it
could be considered a benefit and then documented also, IMHO it is not
a good idea to use undocumented features.

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