David wrote:

> OK, well, hmm...I think perhaps there's something in all that that I can
> understand. I'll try doing some of that stuff with the $PATH, but what even
> does it do? Remember, I've been using Linux for three days.

Bash looks in the $PATH for the executables. So if you type 'x-povray -i 
somefile', bash looks in $PATH for the x-povray executable.

Remco Poelstra

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