alt Hacker NewsThat’s because there isn’t a universal PATH variable.
Env vars are not global. They just have that illusion because a fork() by default will pass your running env vars to the child. Thus trickling that value down.
That’s because there isn’t a universal PATH variable.
Env vars are not global. They just have that illusion because a fork() by default will pass your running env vars to the child. Thus trickling that value down.
Exactly. It's annoying if I'm just trying to launch an application I installed by typing its name, which is IMO what PATH is for.