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SearchPath

The search path is a list of all the directories in which Bash will search for an executable script or compiled program for a match to commands typed in the terminal. The path is an environment variable, the content of which you can list with Echo:

echo $PATH

the output of which should look something like:

/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:
/usr/local/games:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/db/bin:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin:/home/jpaucl/bin