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  1. Bug #1614080
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Philippe Vaucher (philippe-vaucher) wrote : bash PATH contains dot when PATH is unset

On ubuntu 16.04 (but also 14.04), running bash with PATH unset always adds '.' to PATH:

philippe@pv-desktop:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
philippe@pv-desktop:~$ unset PATH
philippe@pv-desktop:~$ /bin/bash
philippe@pv-desktop:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:.

Even when testing in a virtual machine / docker, and erasing /root/.profile /root/.bashrc /etc/profile /etc/bash.bashrc the problem still happens.