In article <bjl.713562403@freyr>, bjl@loki.pttrnl.nl (Ben Lippolt) writes:
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>You can put '.' in your path. In 'csh' or 'tcsh' you do this as follows:
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>    % set path = (. <rest of your path>)
>
>In 'sh' and 'bash' you do it like:
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>    $ PATH=.:<rest of your path>
>    $ export $PATH
>

Although this can be done, it is generally considered a terrible
security risk when done in the root account.  The point is that the
superuser should be running only programs which (s)he knows the
location of; for example, if you have a . in your path and you execute
"alias dir 'ls -lasg'" in csh, you can quite easily have just run a
program in the current directory, called alias, which wipes your disk
out.  Obviously, you're not going to expect such things in distributed
files or when there is nobody else using your system, but it also
helps "protect you from yourself" in some instances.

Of course, as root on your own machine, it's up to you :-)

-- Josh
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