Path command

[Stephen]

On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 08:31 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 3 May 2013 06:54, Stephen <stephen_o at bell.net> wrote:
> > It seems like my path variable in Ubuntu 12.04 got corrupted some how.
> > Programs that I used to start in a terminal are saying path not found or
> > /dir/dir/dir/ is not in the path
> >
> > When I type path in the terminal it says path not found. I thought it was
> > like dos and when you typed a variable in the terminal it told you what the
> > setting for that variable is.
> >
> > Is there some way I can restore the path variable?
> 
> echo $PATH
> to see what it is
> 
> Colin
> 
Thanks for your reply

The $PATH says: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games

It said it couldn't start Samba because /usr/sbin isn't in the path. I
tried something I found on the Internet but it didn't work 
Name at Name:~$ Path=$PATH:/usr/sbin
Name at Name:~$ export path

But it didn't work.