"grep" not working

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, May 17, 2007, Net Llama! wrote:
>On Thu, 17 May 2007, David Bandel wrote:
>> Here's why I personally _never_ allow anyone (especially root) to have
>> "." in the PATH, and any personal directories ($HOME, $HOME/bin) last.
>>
>
>How do you prevent someone from running "export PATH=$PATH:." ?

Linux/Unix is a system for adults, not children, so there's no
way to protect people from their own stupidity.  You may be able
to cure ignorance, but you can't fix stupid.

Bill
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