Re: To "." or not to "."?

[Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido <santana@openbsd.org.mx>]

On Sunday 12 January 2003 21:48, anonymous wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1)  I am wondering why in the OpenBSD 3.2 default user .profile path
> statement, the current directory (".") is:
>
>  . . . :/usr/games:/usr/X11R6/bin.                         (with a
> "." at the end, after "bin", with no space in between).


because you or someone else did it wrong.


>
> If the "." is just to add the current directory to the path
> statement, shouldn't there be a colon (":") before the ".", like
> there is in front of the other directories in the path statement? 
> Like this:
>
>  . . . :/usr/games:/usr/X11R6/bin:.                         (with a
> "." at the end, after ":bin", with no spaces in between).


Yes, it should.


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Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido
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