Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!xmission!nnrp.xmission!.POSTED.shell.xmission.com!not-for-mail From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible? Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 03:57:34 -0000 (UTC) Organization: The official candy of the new Millennium Message-ID: References: <87r04oae4a.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> Injection-Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 03:57:34 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.xmission.com; posting-host="shell.xmission.com:166.70.8.4"; logging-data="3713348"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@xmission.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) Bytes: 1455 Lines: 16 In article , Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:51:33 -0800, Keith Thompson wrote: > >> Of course the '/' character can appear in a pathname. And of course it >> cannot appear in a pathname component, which POSIX also calls a >> "filename". > >But you can use in a file/directory name. But you can use â^@^\â^H^Uâ^@^] (line noise) in a file/directory name. -- Politics is show business for ugly people. Sports is politics for stupid people.