From: Beni Cherniavsky (cben_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Sun 23 Feb 2003 - 17:57:06 IST
On 2003-02-23, Alex Shnitman wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 14:54, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
>
> > On a second thought, having '.' in the *end* of the path is almost safe.
>
> Still, if you want to be completely safe, you shouldn't do even that --
> I bet you sometimes type e.g. "ls-l" or "l s-l", and these typos can be
> taken advantage of just as the real commands.
>
I work on a home computer and I'm not that paranoid but to prevent my own
mistakes I take the more predictible aproach ["In the face of ambiguity,
refuse the temptation to guess." -- The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters] and
don't have '.' even in my user's path. Thank's for everybody's concern in
any case ;-).
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