Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?

antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) writes:

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On my Debian system PATH is:
>
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
>
'/bin' is a symlink to '/usr/bin', so AFAICS '/bin' could be
safely removed from the path.  '/usr/local/games' and
'/usr/games' are empty and I do not intend to put anything
there,

Games packaged by Debian will usually install their binaries/ programs
in /usr/games. For as long as you don't actually install any games,
/usr/games sitting at the end of the path will have no effect except
increasing the time until a "command not found" error is displayed by an
immeasurably small amount.