From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 6 10: 1:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (pau-amma.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD5B537BE78 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:01:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) id KAA18323; Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:01:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:01:31 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200003061801.KAA18323@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, john@cell-works.com Subject: Re: looking for a command equivalent to path In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 13:00:57 -0500 (EST) >From: John Daniel >I need to find a command(s) that are equivalent to the dos path command. Not sure what any given DOS command does.... (Well, I think I still recall some DOS/360, but I doubt that's what you're referring to.) >I want to figure out what my path is now for commands and how to >add/change the path. Is it in some conf file somewhere? I tried rc.conf. Oh. That information, in UNIX, is stored on a per-process basis; it's in the environment variable named "PATH" (and csh and its derivatives copy a version of the information to th eshell "path" variable). I'd recommend a reading of _The UNIX Programming Environment_, by Kernighan and Pike. Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message