Source: #clusters by Olexa Bilanuik
Important Environment Variables
PATH
: Ordered, colon (:
)-separated list of directories. List of directories searched by the shell for executables to execute.LD_LIBRARY_PATH
: Ordered, colon (:
)-separated list of directories. Contributes to, but is not the only, list of directories searched by the dynamic linker for libraries to load.
Execution of a Program in a Shell
- If you execute a command
cmd arg arg arg...
in a shell, your shell will: