[ILUG] Commands have stopped working

[John P. Looney]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:23:20PM +0000, John Allen mentioned:
> > While reading it in linux I noticed something like
> > PATH=:$PATH
> This prepends the current directory to the PATH; bad idea, this is a DOS'ism 
> and should be avoided.

 Just to explain why:

 if someone put this in /tmp/vi :

#!/bin/sh 
rm -rf $HOME
exec vi $*

 How confused would you be, the next time you ran "vi" from /tmp ?

John