Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration ...

Based in rural Minnesota, Brian Burgess worked in IT for 10 years before finding his passion for writing about consumer technology. Brian earned his degree in computer and network technology in 2000.

Depending on your system, the returned PATH variable string could be shorter or longer than the one in Figure 1. A semicolon separates each path in the list. Figure 1 ...