Dot in PATH?

[Mikael Adolfsson]

bob at wyse.wyse.com (Bob McGowen x4312 dept208) writes:

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>PATH=:/usr/lbin...<rest of path deleted>
>    ^^
>This is a null path entry which defautlt to dot.  You can have null
>entries anywhere by either placing two colons together (::) or placing
>a single colon at the beginning (as you did) or at the end.

This is not true for BASH.
At least version 1.05.11 allow null entries
without interpreting them as dot.

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