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Adding directories to your PATH

One of the things I really like about Linux is how it handles a file’s ability to be executable. If you create a script and you want that script to be executable, you just set the permissions as such. Say you’ve created the script myscript.sh and you’ve placed it in your home directory. To execute that [...]

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Adding a directory to your $PATH

In the Linux operating system the $PATH is a listing of all directories where the system will look for commands. What this means is that all of the commands located in the directories included in your path will be globally executable. For example: The /usr/bin directory contains quite a lot of commands that can be [...]

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