2026-11-04 22:55 UTC
I don’t really get what you are doing.
You understanding of PATH sounds basically correct.
My advice would be to document everything you change. That way you actually learn more and also always have information on hand that allow you to unscrew your mistakes.
How should documentation look like? Original version of a config file, what you change, and why you change it. All the commands you run. Put it in markdown files in a git repo or something unless you already have a knowledge base than use that.
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@gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 2026-11-05 00:51
that is exactly what i was trying to do, in fact i forst configured everyghing ans while i was trying to write the .md i thought maybe i either didnt understand or i was missing something. this is part of my chezmoi managed dotfiles. my doubts started because previosly i thougth these two files habdled all of path, but actually various files add different parts of path. so maybe i should not used these two files to habdle path, or maybe yes but i was missing something, etc. essentially i wanted human help besides old forum posts about this .