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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users [BASH] Read value of variable, but not comment on the same line Post 302953580 by derekludwig on Sunday 30th of August 2015 08:25:44 AM
Old 08-30-2015
The error message was generated because . was not specified as a directory to search by the PATH environmental variable (and bash is not in POSIX mode).

If a variable occurs more than once in a configuration file, wouldn't you want the LAST occurrence?
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