Dot in PATH?

[Mark Hall]

jeffb at aquifer.las.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Biesiadecki) writes:

>Hi -

>In a recent flame war in alt.sources, it was said that it was a bad idea
>to have '.' in your $PATH variable (I use tcsh, or csh, probably this
>would apply for any shell).  What's wrong with doing this?

>Jeff

Jeff, why would you want to do this?  I thought Un*x automatically checked the
directory that you are in (your current directory) for commands you entered.

(Yes, this may seem like a stupid question, but I'm wearing my asbestos
briefs...)
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