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What is Path variable?What is its use?

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PATH is an environment variable.
It contains the sequence of paths seperated by colons(:)
when we enter commands on the prompt the shell first checks
that coorresponding program to execute in those paths
specified in PATH variable.

We can print that sequnece by typing
echo $PATH

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