Modern PATH environment variable

The PATH environment variable is read by the shell or libc to find and execute programs, this is how the shell can find /bin/ls when ls is typed in a terminal. Shrink it On Debian based desktop systems the default PATH variable look like this: PATH = /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games Much of this is not really necessary. First, on modern…