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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat PATH issue on linux Post 302332840 by mark54g on Friday 10th of July 2009 07:41:23 AM
Old 07-10-2009
Because setting the relative path breaks things the moment you change directories and it is a bad idea. You came looking for help. People told you what you are doing is wrong.

The PATH variable is meant to be a static variable. If you choose to override that with a bad decision, by all means, do so. However, you will be the one who has to deal with it. There is no reason to use a relative path in the PATH variable. The entire purpose of the PATH is so that relative paths don't matter as you can call on any binaries in the PATH with shortened commands.

Also, if you MUST use a relative path, and thats rather ridiculous, make your path $PATH:../bin, etc.

However, thats just plain WRONG. You should set it in your path, at the END of the string and never have to worry about which directory you are in.
Last edited by mark54g; 07-10-2009 at 09:25 AM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

systemd-path

SYSTEMD-PATH(1) 						   systemd-path 						   SYSTEMD-PATH(1)

NAME

       systemd-path - List and query system and user paths

SYNOPSIS

       systemd-path [OPTIONS...] [NAME...]

DESCRIPTION

       systemd-path may be used to query system and user paths. The tool makes many of the paths described in file-hierarchy(7) available for
       querying.

       When invoked without arguments, a list of known paths and their current values is shown. When at least one argument is passed, the path
       with this name is queried and its value shown. The variables whose name begins with "search-" do not refer to individual paths, but instead
       to a list of colon-separated search paths, in their order of precedence.

OPTIONS

       The following options are understood:

       --suffix=
	   The printed paths are suffixed by the specified string.

       -h, --help
	   Print a short help text and exit.

       --version
	   Print a short version string and exit.

EXIT STATUS

       On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

SEE ALSO

       systemd(1), file-hierarchy(7)

systemd 237															   SYSTEMD-PATH(1)
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