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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Path Environment Variable Post 302070848 by Rakesh Ranjan on Saturday 8th of April 2006 05:09:25 AM
Old 04-08-2006
Quite simple add the path of the command to environment variable PATH like this
PATH=$PATH:/path/of/command (e.g PATH=$PATH:/bin).
The PATH variable contains path for commands separated with colon like
/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin/:/bin
these paths are looked sequentially for command whenever u give a command on shell prompt and upon finding the first one it executes it.
Hope thats clear.
 

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