Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?

On 26.01.2025 18:51, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

On 2025-01-26, Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:

To my best knowledge using '/' as part of a file or directory name is
(as the '\0') prohibited by the operating system at a very low level.
So there would, IMO, not be a security hole (i.e. not because of that).

 
The / is not part of a name; it is acting as the path component
separator. [...]

Oh, I took your wording (emphasis by me)

 *directory* called "~/bin"

literally as being meant the name of the directory (as opposed to
the complete path to the bin directory). - Thanks for clarifying.

Janis