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

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

On 20.01.2025 09:05, Wayne wrote:

 
As for non-sudo PATH, you can always run:
    export PATH=$(getconf PATH)
To get a minimal PATH setting guaranteed to include all POSIX
utilities.

>
Yes, this comes very close to what I was actually aiming at. In
my environment that's just /bin and /usr/bin and this is what I
typically need in my scripts (plus sometimes /usr/local/bin).

I am a late-comer to an interesting thread ...

I think that, depending on your Linux distribution, /bin and /sbin are
symbolic links to their respective /usr counterparts (in Debian there is
a "usrmerge" package to help with this transition). Also, depending on
the adherence to file hierarchy standards, there are different policies
when it comes to /opt and /usr/local (the latter here has no files, only
empty directories).

So a tidy minimalist might opt for /bin only (plus, if needed,
$HOME/bin, which is better than ~/bin, because tilde expansion is not,
AFAIK, included in POSIX) as non-root and /bin:/sbin else.

But all the sbin directories (and other clutter) would be gone. It
practically shows that these directories are unnecessary for a normal
(non-root) user.

Well, /usr/games is populated here ...   (-:

Best regards

Axel