./ [WAS: Re: Terminal Syntax]

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Monday 25 June 2007, Greg Booth wrote:
> the next time you typed ls to get a listing of files in a directory
> you'd be running the hacked virus version, and not the version in
> /usr/bin like you should be. To run the version in your root directory
> you'd have to type out the full ./ls

Bingo.  That's the reason.
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D. Michael McIntyre