Path command

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 03 May 2013 15:20:33 Stephen did opine:

> 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.

This stuff is case sensitive.  Look carefully at what you wrote above.

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