Why path

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All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. The command line automatically checks in a list of pre-defined locations directories everytime we are trying to call a certain command.

This is why we can use certain commands like ls and pwd and such from any directory we happen to be in. This is a colon-delimited list of all the directories the command line looks in by default for programs.

We can now more clearly see this is a list of directories. Keep in mind that the order in which things appear in our PATH does matter. If you want to follow along, you can make both by copying and pasting the following code block.

If the following is confusing to you at first glance, running through the Unix crash course will get you almost entirely up to speed.