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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
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Paul Traina writes:
>I think these make perfect sense.  You could conceivably have shared versions
>of a /bin program in /usr/bin, which is why this was set this way in the first
>place.  

But this is an exception, not the common case. 

BTW, we use different PATH definitions:

/usr/share/skel/dot.login
set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin $HOME/bin)

/usr/share/skel/dot.profile
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin


I prefer /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:$HOME/bin

Wolfram