On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, KevinO wrote:

> George Toft wrote:
> >>to prevent this aggravation in the future, add to your .bashrc file:
> >>PATH=".:$PATH"
> >
> >
> > Never, ever, ever do this to your root account.  This offense will
> > downgrade your performance evaluations in some places as it demostrates
> > severe ineptitude and a lack of understanding on basic Unix security.
>
> I would just add that if he does choose to modify his path, as a user, that he
> put the current working directory at the end of the path :
>
> export PATH="$PATH:."

Just add the directory containing your binaries to the end of your PATH.
For example:

PATH=$PATH:/home/m/bin

Or just get in the habit of typing ./ before the binary name.
~M