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Old 04-18-2007
A system path?

ok I'm new here but I'm no dummy when it comes to unix [linux]
i was wondering if there was a system path variable or any way to get one.
EX.

>ls /

would return:

home
root
tmp
var
media
Debian-linux
Debian-bsd
redhat
with the Debian-linux and Debian-bsd and redhat contaning the remaining parts of the unix file tree for each distro.

is this possible?
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Old 04-19-2007
Do you mean the env variable PATH? You can check the value of that using 'echo $PATH'. If you are trying to ask about something else, you are going to have to explain your question better.
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