Download CIS 90 - Lesson 11

CIS 90 - Lesson 11
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Command: find
The shell now must search, in order, every directory on Benji’s
path to locate the first occurrence of the find command.
Benji’s path is defined by the value of his PATH variable
1st directory searched: /usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin
2nd directory searched: /usr/local/bin
The shell locates the
find command in the
3rd directory searched: /bin
/bin directory
4th directory searched: /usr/bin
5th directory searched: /usr/local/sbin
6th directory searched: /usr/sbin
7th directory searched: /sbin
8th directory searched: /home/cis90/simben/../bin
9th directory searched: /home/cis90/simben/bin
10th directory searched: .
/home/cis90/simben $ echo $PATH
/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/cis90/simben/../bin:/home/cis90/simben/bin:.
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