When the user
sets
the environment, it frobs PATH to refer to each bin/ directory.
Does that mean PATH is a list of hundreds of such directories?
As I understand it, yes.
Does having so many dirs in PATH make it noticeably slower to run a
command?
I wonder why they don't populate /usr/bin and ~/bin with the
installed commands. Is it just to make it "functional",
or is there a practical reason?
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