[NTLUG:Discuss] PATH issue

[Eric Schnoebelen]

Fred James writes:
- In tracking down another problem (possibly related) I found that my PATH 
- is set as follows ...
-
- /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/qt4/bin:\
-	/usr/lib/qt3//bin:/usr/lib/qt4/bin:/usr/lib/qt3//bin:\
-	/home/fredjame/bin:/usr/lib/qt4/bin:/usr/lib/qt3//bin
-
- ... wherein that last bit (:/usr/lib/qt3//bin) looks like a possible 
- show stopper(?) for some things, but I cannot seem to locate where that 
- is being set.

Why do you think it might be  show-stopper?

(now, the fact that you've got
'/usr/lib/qt4/bin:/usr/lib/qt3/bin' in your path 3 times is
annoying, but hardly a problem.)

As someone else mentioned, the double slashes will be compressed
into a single slash as far as walking the directory structures
is concerned. (actually, I think POSIX specifies that any number
of adjacent slashes in the path are treated as a single slash
character -- although I imagine the standards document says
something like "path seperator".. :D)

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