alt Hacker NewsExactly. 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.
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arccy • today at 6:30 PM
this is why you don't curl | bash
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.
this is why you don't curl | bash
How are you installing it? Normally package managers will symlink it into a system defined $PATH directory so you shouldn’t need to faff with $PATH yourself.
Not all applications executable match the application name (eg Visual Studio Code is just “code”). So could that have been the issue?