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Understanding $PATH
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Understanding $PATH

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If you don't understand how paths work in unix, then you'll have a hard time with everything.

  • ./ means this directory
  • ./../ means this directory, then down one directory level like cd ..
  • ./src/bin/cli

Those are all relative paths. Where things get tricky is intrucing inferred paths. Basically, they are invisible. When you want to invoke a program, there is a list of directories that are searched in order for the binary.

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