Re: PATH_DIRS

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 10/08/17 10:07 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> ... so it will be run if it's a script on my PATH, even if not '+x' 
> then it seems intuitive that whence would also be able to find it.
>
>
Ah ... 'whence -m' not 'whence -ma' and it seems to be true one-stop 
shopping, all files are found, mind, that would be text files that 
aren't scripts, too, but 'file' shows the difference based on the 
hashbang, so I can use that to filter out non scripts since I always 
have a hashbang in any script.  Not to be unclear about what I want to 
do, but it is a caution that I can:

$ . pea_soup_recipe

... and it tries to execute that if I was so unorganized as to have that 
file on my path somewhere.  As Bart said, one can see the protection of 
requiring '+x', but that does not seem to be the case.