Notable bash $PATH behavior trivia

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 09:55:49 EST
bscott at ntisys.com said:

>  Knowing the way life works, I'm sure there are people who "do this all the
>time" and "never had any trouble".  Heck, just the other day, in another
>forum, I got into a discussion with someone who has always used "0" instead
>of "127.0.0.1" (because it was easier to type).  Apparently, this actually
>works with an astounding amount of software, due to the way the IP stack
>gets implemented in many systems.  However, it's not in any standard that I
>know of, and it was causing a problem with some software he was trying to
>run, but he "never had any trouble" before.  *sigh*

I do this all the time too :)  Usually for testing things like apache:

	telnet 0 80

Works for simple things, but I wouldn't 'depend' upon it, IYKWIM...
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