See StackOverflow question http://stackoverflow.com/a/34675415/107049
When running this with docker-compose:
docker-compose up
[root@vps229672 tmp]# docker-compose up Creating tmp_app-no-custom-path_1 Creating tmp_app-with-custom-path_1 Attaching to tmp_app-no-custom-path_1, tmp_app-with-custom-path_1 app-no-custom-path_1 | PATH: /foo app-with-custom-path_1 | PATH: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin:/bar tmp_app-no-custom-path_1 exited with code 0 tmp_app-with-custom-path_1 exited with code 0