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Path Isn't Real on Linux


where my words occasionally escape /dev/null

On a fresh installation of Debian 12 (bookworm), executing echo $PATH shows the following output: On Debian, shell scripts using/bin/sh use dash, which is responsible for interpreting and executing commands. Specifying a program in an executable text file using a shebang requires an absolute path:

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