Re: qsh: 001-0014 Error

[Terrence Enger <tenger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 07:51 +1100, Simon Coulter wrote:
> On 24/11/2009, at 6:07 AM, Dennis Lovelady wrote:
>
> > And on that, it is not a good
> > idea to have current directory ( . ) in one's path for security  
> > reasons
> > since rouge scripts may be run accidentally that way
>
> Umm ... why would a sort of reddish script be an issue? Are other  
> coloured scripts a security problem? Does this apply to all colours or  
> only primary ones? And how do you colour shell scripts anyway? Is that  
> a special switch on chmod or a different command? Can you do that on  
> all *nixes or only System V or only BSD or only on obscure variants?

Well, you can try `ls --color`, but I think it is a gnu extension.

For us Canucks, grep accepts both --color and --colour.  Neat!

Cheers,
Terry.

> :) Just teasing ...
>
> Regards,
> Simon Coulter.
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