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Efficient Linux at the CLI (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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How to Navigate Your File System

The search path is a list of directories where executable programs are kept. When you type just the bare name of a command at your command line behind the scenes, the shell searches that entire list of directories until it finds the first match and it runs that program. The CD path is a shortcut that lets you say, I've got a collection of directories that I often visit. It's also nice to portability, right? Like, is that just a standard thing and probably every one next out there versus like, does this machine have Z oxide installed onto it? No, it doesn't.

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