Path command

[Stephen]

On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 15:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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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Thanks. I tried the grep command that I was given and /usr/sbin is in
the path. I don't understand why it won't start samba.