I have a script called jsl in /usr/local/bin. Running which jsl finds it there. I want to temporarily use a different version, and when I echo $PATH I see that /usr/bin is earlier in the path. So I added a script called jsl in that folder and I’ve verified that it is executable and runs … Read more
There’re way too many articles/resources on the web that teaches people HOW to set the environment variable PATH so that they can use the short hand of java or python etc instead of the absolute path in command line interface.
If a shared object dependency does not contain a slash, then it is
searched for in the following order:
I have installed node.js at custom location and added the location to the $PATH in .profile file.
I want to remove ~/bin from my PATH. I set it up months ago when Linux (Ubuntu) was very new to me, but I don’t know how I added it…
I have a bash script file, which is put under some directory added to $PATH so that I can call the script from any directory.
It looks like when adding a directory into $PATH, its subdirectories are not added recursively. So can I do that? Or is there a reason why this is not supported?
Sometimes I define a function that shadows an executable and tweaks its arguments or output. So the function has the same name as the executable, and I need a way how to run the executable from the function without calling the function recursively. For example, to automatically run the output of fossil diff through colordiff and less -R I use:
I’m trying to compile wxWidgets using MingW, and I have cygwin in my path, which seems to conflict. So I would like to remove /d/Programme/cygwin/bin from the PATH variable and I wonder if there is some elegant way to do this.
If I have a PATH variable that (when exploded onto multiple lines) contains something like this (with a few notes added by me):