So the question is: What are environment variables, like the executable PATH, and how can I change and use them on major operating systems? A good answer would include a simple …

16 Meith 2010 · What does "/" , "./", "../" represent while giving path?Let's be precise: "/"is a path which begins with a /, and thus it is an absolute path. Thus, we need to begin in the root of the …

10 Samh 2024 · There aren't many guides available on adding a folder to the Windows 11 user Path environment variable. This is useful for new programmers to be able to easily run code …

22 Iúil 2009 · A path set in .bash_profile will only be set in a bash login shell (bash -l). If you put your path in .profile it will be available to your complete desktop session.

13 Ean 2016 · What is this "export" phrase at the start? export is a command (more precisely it's a Bash builtin, i.e. it's not an executable present in PATH, it's a command that Bash has built-in in …

What does the ~ mean in an absolute file path? I see this in the output of things like build scripts but the path does not exist.

2 Meith 2023 · It seems the other question you linked to has been resolved. Also the script snippets in your question show a lot of typos, such as a spurious blank between #! and /bin/sh, …

14 Noll 2022 · It depends on the shell you're using. On Solaris (I know the question is about Linux) one of the shells (can't remember which one off the top of my head) requires that you do the …

24 Beal 2012 · PATH is a global operating system variable that contains names of files that are to be executed without specyfing the whole path to them. For example You can just write startx to …

What are PATH and other environment variables, and how can I set or use them? I ran a third-party install script which added its folders to the %PATH% variable in the Windows shell. I want to get …