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How can I find out where an environment variable (like PATH) was set?
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Mar 15, 20268935 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Problem
I have a xterm with the bash shell in linux. When I , it is showing a directory and I want to know who put this directory in the . How can I find out? Thanks!
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echo $PATH
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Assuming your login shell is bash, you could start looking in the following files: , and . If you invoke bash from another shell, then you might need to check what variables the other shell sets.
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