Questions tagged [path]
PATH (all upper case) is the name of an environment variable on Unix-like operating systems, DOS, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows, specifying a set of directories where executable programs are searched for.
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`sudo which` command not finding executable that exists in regular user PATH [duplicate]
I'm encountering a confusing behavior with sudo and the which command. An executable is found when running which as a regular user, but not when using sudo which, even though it's accessible when ...
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Confused about root shell $PATH
So I'm running a Devuan (but for these purposes it could be Debian as well as most other distros, I guess...) and somehow, when I enter the root shell in a graphical terminal via su, the PATH variable ...
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Removing duplicate `/snap/bin` from default `$PATH`
In Ubuntu Desktop 24 $ grep VERSION= /etc/os-release VERSION="24.04.2 LTS (Noble Numbat)" When I open a Terminal window my $PATH has two copies of /snap/bin $ echo $PATH | sed -e 's/:/:\n/...
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Display all commands matching a glob [duplicate]
How can I get Bash to list the first (or all) commands that match a given glob? For example, let's say I'm looking for a command called cat. I can do type cat and it will search $PATH and tell me ...
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gnome-wayland: unable to change $PATH at gnome-shell level
I can't change the PATH at gnome-shell level so I can execute programs in my ~/bin or ~/.local/bin folder from my .desktop files. I am able to easily define other variables through ~/.config/...
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In bash, how to resolve what is actually going to be executed?
Bash has the built-in command "type", which indicates how each argument would be interpreted if used as a command name, for instance: $ type myfunction myfunction is a function myfunction () ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 - /usr/games and /usr/local/games missing in $PATH for newly created user accounts
A fresh installed Ubuntu 24.04 system creates the first user account. That user account has by default the following $PATH = /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/...
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Can Linux files systems resolve a relative path before resolving symlink?
New Linux user here, freshly transitioned from Windows 10 to Fedora 41. Lot's of experience with many OS's, including various *nix and Unix-like file systems. I have a standard practice of using ...
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PATH on Mac not working for Python
I am trying to run a Python program from my command line on my Mac. (in this case: python3 Hello.py). For the life of me, I can’t get it to consider the PATH where the program is located. This is the ...
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zsh, macOS: Which file should be used to modify the $PATH variable, and how exactly?
What is the correct way to add something to the $PATH variable on macOS? For example, I can do it in .zshrc: path+=$HOME/foo/bar ...but it seems in such a case the modified path will be available for ...
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How to add a path to PATH that involves a variable that needs to be evaluated?
say I want to add the current directory to path. I need to run echo "export PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)" >> ~/.bash_profile. this expands $(pwd) like I wanted, but it also expands the $PATH ...
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A recommended way to use a command-line utility that isn't added to PATH
If I have a command-line utility foo installed by some program, and it is not added to $PATH, and I want to have an easy way to use it, it seems there are three options: create a symbolic link, ...
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Command invoked from one path, "which" says it should be invoked from elsewhere [duplicate]
I've built an executable which, for the sake of this question, is named foo. There is already a version of it at /usr/bin/foo, and I install a different version as /usr/local/bin/foo. My path has /usr/...
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How to set path for howdy?
My OS info: uname -a Linux hello 6.1.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.76-1 (2024-02-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux howdy already installed: sudo apt list howdy Listing... Done howdy/now 2.6.1 all [...
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ansible rsync command fails from using non-kerberos ssh on remost system
I wish to rsync a directory structure from one remote server to another - using an Ansible playbook.yml. During the play, the ansible shell module's command for rsync fails. I know the reason - it's ...
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