Pankaj Pandey

• Dec 28th, 2006

 

Because . denotes the hidden files in the Unix environment.it is treated as the property of the file name and is not a part of the path.

hank

• Jan 19th, 2007

 

Wrong...the dot is not supposed to be in your path because when you enter a command, your environment i.e. your path will try and execute from your pwd which is never a good thing. 

Rhishikesh

• Feb 15th, 2007

 

Yes, . means current working directory and having current directory into your path could create problem like.. I can have 'ls' command written in current directory to delete all the files

nayakss

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• Dec 10th, 2008

 

I don't think there is any hard and fast rule that not to include "." in the Path variable. If you need it, then you can add and add the . at the end. 

Like /usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/etc:.