Questions tagged [paths]

Questions related to path in networking, file system and OS.

  1. Networking: A bang path or explicitly routed Internet address; a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines.

  2. File system: A pathname.

  3. Operating System: The list of directories the kernel (under Ubuntu/Linux/Unix) searches for executables. It is stored as part of the ॒environment_ in both operating systems.

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How do I add an executable to my search path?

For reference, I know very little about Linux, and am using it to run a program written by someone else. The instructions say Add the executable 'ttt' to the search path. In most installations this can be accomplished by linking the file to the…
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Alt+F2 (Run Application) doesn't work for custom commands

In order to speed up Android development, I've edited my ~/.bashrc to add some paths to PATH: export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/android-sdk/tools:/opt/android-sdk/platform-tools This works just fine from the command line (I can just type android and, no…
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How do I find the full path to a file?

I'm running into a little bit of bother with finding the path of a file called oragi I tried the find command but it didn't help. I'm following the instructions on this page if it is of any help. :) https://github.com/neurobin/oraji
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Why do which and whereis provide different locations and how can I prefer one path over the other?

I recently compiled and installed diffutils-3.3 as I needed the --no-dereference switch that is unavailable in the included version of diff. After configure, make, make check, make clean, and install the new version 3.3 of diff was installed in…
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Add to PATH, no ~/.profile nor ~/.pam_environment

I just compiled ffmpeg, now I just want to add it on the path. Every source I can find reference .profile, and if not present or in specific cases, tell to use .pam_environment. But double tab give me: user@domain:~$ echo…
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$PATH prolems in Ubuntu

I have an application named delphi in Delphi_Dp directory. Its PATH is /usr/kalyan/Downloads/Delphi_Dp I have done export PATH=$PATH:/usr/kalyan/Downloads/Delphi_Dp echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/kalyan/Downloads/Delphi_Dp' >> ~/.bash_profile But in…
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$PATH not working

How can this happen? jon@vaio:~/brickify$ /usr/bin/node -v v0.8.11 jon@vaio:~/brickify$ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games jon@vaio:~/brickify$ node -v …
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What is an object path?

This man page has the following section: udisksctl unmount {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE} What is an OBJECT? I tried to give it a path (i.e. media/tim/name) but it doesn't accept that. What do I need to tell it?
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Sharing PATH across login mechanisms with modification support

I'm running Xubuntu 14.10, currently using lightdm. Let's examine two process trees: init───lightdm───lightdm───upstart───xfce4-terminal───bash and: init───lightdm───lightdm───upstart───emacs─┬─{dconf worker} …
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My PATH variable seems to be set OK, but does not work

I installed some programm (xlsx2csv) using pip3. The executable of the software is in ~/.local/bin. My $PATH is defined in ~/.profile like this: PATH="$HOME/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" echo…
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How to add/edit PATH when using X2Go client logging into ubuntu terminal

noob here. I want to add a folder to PATH only under my account. Tried to search for answers for quite a while. Ending up get methods like creating .profile .bash_profile under my home directory(~), and add a line with new path information in them.…
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How to add a directory permanently to my Path?

Basically I want to know that. How can I add a directory (/tmp in my case) to the Path permanently from the terminal?
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Path error in Ubuntu

I'm having this strange output whenever I type $PATH. The part that says No such file or directory. bash: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin/:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin: No such file or directory This is my .bashrc # ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1)…
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get the path of moved directory/file (source path and destination path)

When one directory is moved to other destination path, then i want to log the entry of original source path and entry of the path where it moved. any command is already available ? or any other way of doing this task? Ex: D1 =…
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having trouble setting $PATH

I am trying to set the $PATH permanantly for Vault. I have cd to etc and run sudo nano environment. This opens and I have appended my needed path onto the end like…
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