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Your Path

Your search path exists as just another environment variable. The Korn shell searches through the path each time you enter a command at the command line. The first executable program that is found in that search path that matches the name of the command you typed in is then run. The path is searched in order from left to right. 

$  echo $PATH

$HOME/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local:

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