Re: A GNU Distribution

[Richard Stallman]

                                                               When the user 
sets
           the environment, it frobs PATH to refer to each bin/ directory.

       Does that mean PATH is a list of hundreds of such directories?

    As I understand it, yes.

Does having so many dirs in PATH make it noticeably slower to run a
command?

I wonder why they don't populate /usr/bin and ~/bin with the
installed commands.  Is it just to make it "functional",
or is there a practical reason?


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