In the UNIX world, it’s well understood that you need to prefix binaries in the current directory with ./ in order to run them: . is not in $PATH by default. This is to avoid evil binaries overriding system utils like ls and getting code exec.
Asking this question on mpv player and dvds, I stumbled into a more generic question: is it generally possible to specify a path in which one of the directory names is variable?
I installed parcellite in Ubuntu (downloaded from http://parcellite.sourceforge.net/)
Is there a one-liner that will list all executables from $PATH in Bash?
export does set the $PATH explicitly.
When I run netstat --protocol unix or lsof -U I see that some unix socket paths are prepended with @ symbol, for example, @/tmp/dbus-qj8V39Yrpa. Then when I run ls -l /tmp I don’t see file named dbus-qj8V39Yrpa there.
As far as I understand, the usual way to add a path to the PATH environment variable is by concatenating paths separated by the : character.
After much frustrating head-brick-wall contact, I’ve discovered this: $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/steve/bin $ sudo bash # echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin but $ sudo bash -c 'echo $PATH' /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin $ sudo bash -Ec 'echo $PATH' /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin I gather from another post that the sudo path is read from /etc/sudoers — but why? Does setting $PATH in /root/.profile … Read more
Im trying to make a .desktop file run a .sh which is stored in the same directory as the .desktop. The whole directory needs to be portable and moved from machine to machine.
rsync -avP /home/user/.profile hpux3:/home/user/.profile bash: rsync: command not found If I did ssh to hpux3 machine rsync version 3.1.1 protocol version 31 Copyright (C) 1996-2014 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others. Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/ output truncated I have set PATH in $HOME/.profile and $HOME/.bashrc. Should I set it in the /etc/profile file? Answers: Thank … Read more