What is $PATH on a Linux Shell? (The Linux Crash Course Series)

Do you want to Learn Linux? The Linux Crash Course series contains video lessons on all kinds of Linux commands and concepts. In this episode, we'll take a look at the concept of $PATH in Linux. You'll learn what it is, why it's helpful, and also how to customize it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐧 Save on Linux Foundation Certifications Whether you're starting a Linux career or advancing your existing skills, Linux Foundation training can help you stand out in a competitive industry. Check out the available courses and certifications, and save! https://learnlinux.link/get-certified ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📖 Switch to Linux with my latest book! Thinking about making the jump to Linux? This step-by-step guide will help you choose the right distribution, install Linux with confidence! Join the announcement list to be among the first to know when it's released: https://learnlinux.link/switch-to-linux ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❤️ Support the Channel and Get Awesome Stuff Books, discounts, shirts and more! Switching to Linux Book (New!) ➜ https://learnlinux.link/switch-to-linux Ansible Course ➜ https://learnlinux.link/ansible Linux Essentials Course ➜ https://learnlinux.link/linux-essentials eBook Bundle ➜ https://learnlinux.link/ebook-bundle Linux Merch Shop ➜ https://merch.learnlinux.tv Linode Starter Credit ➜ https://learnlinux.link/linode Paid Assistance ➜ https://www.learnlinux.tv/request-ass... ❤️ Support the Channel Enjoyed the video? Your support keeps this channel independent! Become a Channel Member (Ad-Free & Early Access) ➜ https://learnlinux.link/join Support on Patreon ➜ https://learnlinux.link/patron ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕐 Time Codes 00:00 - Intro 00:55 - Spin up your very own Linux server on Linode (sponsor) 02:53 - Looking at an alternate universe, where PATH was never invented 05:47 - What $PATH actually is, and why it's so useful to have 06:40 - Using a Bash script to further explain PATH 10:29 - Running a script or binary from outside of PATH 11:37 - Finding the path to a command or script 12:21 - Why is your home directory not within PATH by default? 13:23 - Adding a new directory to your PATH 17:48 - How to make changes to PATH survive closing your shell session━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎓 Learn Linux TV Your source for Linux-related Fun and Learning! https://www.learnlinux.tv https://community.learnlinux.tv https://learnlinux.link/jay ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Affiliate Notice Some of the links mentioned in this description are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, it helps keep the content flowing. https://www.learnlinux.tv/content-ethics ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Use Content Responsibly Learn Linux TV shares technical content intended to teach and help you, but it comes with no warranty. The channel is not liable for any damages from its use. Always ensure you have proper permissions, follow company policies, and comply with all applicable laws while working with technology. #LearnLinux #linux_tutorial #linuxforbeginners