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-The most important variable you will deal with, is the **$PATH** variable, which specifies the directories that bash will look for executable files. This lets you type ''appname'' into your shell to run a program, instead of a drawn out path like ''/path/to/appname''. To figure out where your $PATH is, run:+The most important variable you will deal with, is the **$PATH** variable, which specifies the directories that bash will look for installed applications. This lets you type ''appname'' into your shell to run a program, instead of a drawn out path like ''/path/to/appname''. If the directory is not in your $PATH, then bash will not know to look there for apps. 
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 +To figure out where your $PATH is, run:
  
   $ echo $PATH   $ echo $PATH
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 This will output something like: This will output something like:
  
-  /home/user/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin+  /home/username/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
      
 This above line shows that bash will look in your personal **~/.local/bin** directory, as well as a list of common locations for globally-accessible binaries. Your system may have other locations appended here as well for things like games, [[tools:flatpak|Flatpak]] or [[tools:flatpak#snap|Snap]]. This above line shows that bash will look in your personal **~/.local/bin** directory, as well as a list of common locations for globally-accessible binaries. Your system may have other locations appended here as well for things like games, [[tools:flatpak|Flatpak]] or [[tools:flatpak#snap|Snap]].
  
-To enable bash to run a custom application (such as a freshly downloaded [[tools:appimage|AppImage]] file) without having to type out the whole directory it is located in, you should place the file into your personal **~/.local/bin** directory //(which will almost-always be in your $PATH by default on modern systems)//. Or, you could put a symlink into that directory like so:+To enable bash to run a custom application //(such as a freshly downloaded [[tools:appimage|AppImage]] file)//, you should place the file into your personal **~/.local/bin** directory //(which will almost-always be in your $PATH by default on modern systems)//. Or, you could put a symlink into that directory like so:
  
   $ ln -s /path/to/the.appimage ~/.local/bin/commandname   $ ln -s /path/to/the.appimage ~/.local/bin/commandname
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