Re: PATH variable for do shell script
Re: PATH variable for do shell script
- Subject: Re: PATH variable for do shell script
- From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 03:48:23 -0600
On Nov 03, 2015, at 02:35, Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden> wrote:
What's the exact meaning of :
"/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin" ______________________________________________________________________
Hey Yvan,
This is not a path. This is a list of paths that the shell will search for commands.
Each path is terminated by the colon character.
On POSIX and Unix-like operating systems, the $PATH variable is specified as a list of one or more directory names separated by colon ( :) characters. [2][3]
I usually add this to my do shell script commands:
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH;
And that saves me from having to provide the full path to user-installed executables.
AppleScript normally sees: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
The export command is stacking additional directories on the the existing $PATH.
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
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