Category: CLI

Precedence for the Commandline $PATH

On the commandline the elements of PATH are checked from left to right.

an example (PATH)

the command test-my-command-precedence.sh which exists in
/bin/test-my-command-precedence.sh
/usr/bin/test-my-command-precedence.sh

for the following path

~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

the /usr/bin/test-my-command-precedence.sh gets precedence.