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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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Re: Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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Post by lanyard-textile » Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 6:03 AM UTC

mlrtime wrote: post #230

lanyard-textile wrote: post #120

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Elaborate?? "." has been at the end of my PATH for like 20 years.

I could drop a shell script that does something like echo "lanyard2 ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" > /etc/sudoers.d/lanyard2 ; ls if you ran ls in my dir, you would give me sudoers access

If you put . at the end of PATH, isn't it checked last? I would need to have a missing ls installation.

Still viable though for something like rg... Maybe you run it before you install it for the first time on a new machine.

Re: Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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Post by fragmede » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 12:25 AM UTC

mathfailure wrote: post #116

fragmede wrote: post #28

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curious if you're customizing anyway, why not use eg ripgrep?

Others have already given valid answers: grep is not ripgrep [their params don't match], so it's a bad idea to alias 'grep' to use ripgrep. But it's okay to alias 'ripgrep' (or 'rg' or whatever) to use ripgrep with some args.

That wasn't my point. The params don't match so you'd be hurting yourself to alias grep=rg; my point was if you're already customizing the system, then upgrading to ripgrep should also be on the table.

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