{"id":1011,"date":"2016-03-02T10:24:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T18:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/breanneboland.com\/blog\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2016-03-01T22:27:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T06:27:30","slug":"new-post-on-path-for-my-company-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breanneboland.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/02\/new-post-on-path-for-my-company-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"New Post on PATH for My Company Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1013\" src=\"http:\/\/breanneboland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/path2.png\" alt=\"A path in Skogskyrkog\u00e5rden cemetery in Stockholm\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/breanneboland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/path2.png 1000w, https:\/\/breanneboland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/path2-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/breanneboland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/path2-768x1159.png 768w, https:\/\/breanneboland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/path2-679x1024.png 679w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>And surprise surprise, I ended up at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truss.works\" target=\"_blank\">company<\/a> that&#8217;s as almost as excited about me blogging about software engineering as I am. I published <a href=\"http:\/\/truss.works\/blog\/2016\/2\/26\/engineer-how-to-access-and-edit-your-path-system-variable\" target=\"_blank\">a post for them<\/a> a few days ago about working with your PATH, what the PATH system variable is, and how to access and change it.<\/p>\n<p>This was a bit of an enduring mystery for me at Hackbright &#8211; this vital thing that comes up in so many tutorials but which so many smart, willing people had a surprisingly hard time explaining. I started thinking of\u00a0it as <em>everything and nothing, the alpha and the omega.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Late last fall, gainfully employed and feeling sillier by the day for not having mastered this important concept, I began a campaign of badgering\u00a0my coworkers on Slack until I cobbled together a working explanation of what PATH is and what you might need to do with it. One coworker noted, after publishing, that this is a bash-specific explanation (given the system files I mention), and he is of course completely correct.<\/p>\n<p>So do check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/truss.works\/blog\/2016\/2\/26\/engineer-how-to-access-and-edit-your-path-system-variable\" target=\"_blank\">bash-specific PATH tutorial<\/a>, with the expectation that you people who use zsh and other fancy-pants shells will have to do a little adapting in your head. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re used to that anyway.<\/p>\n<p><em>The photo is one from my recent trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deviationobligatoire.com\/tag\/scandinavia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sweden<\/a>. I like to visit cemeteries when I travel; this is a photo from\u00a0Skogskyrkog\u00e5rden, which was beautiful and worth a long-ish metro ride.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And surprise surprise, I ended up at a company that&#8217;s as almost as excited about me blogging about software engineering as I am. I published a post for them a few days ago about working with your PATH, what the PATH system variable is, and how to access and change it. 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