do not mention cd since it technically isn't like that
commitabf767787a1bc87413bd17ec8bddd99a1568da93
authorEvan Czaplicki <evancz@users.noreply.github.com>
dateTue 1 Oct 2019, 10:37 (7 years ago)
parent43e2b91
installers/linux/README.md+1−1
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ This prints `/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin` on my computer. The d
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6565When I run `elm make src/Main.elm`, my terminal starts by searching these five directories for an executable file named `elm`. It finds `/usr/local/bin/elm` and then runs `/usr/local/bin/elm make src/Main.elm` with whatever arguments I gave.
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67−So the `PATH` environment variable is a convention that allows you to refer to a specific executable file without knowing exactly where it lives on your computer. This is actually how all "terminal commands" work! Commands like `ls` and `cd` are really executable files that live in directories like `/bin` and `/usr/bin` that happen to be listed in your `PATH` variable.
67+So the `PATH` environment variable is a convention that allows you to refer to a specific executable file without knowing exactly where it lives on your computer. This is actually how all "terminal commands" work! Commands like `ls` are really executable files that live in directories listed in your `PATH` variable.
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6969So the point of running `sudo mv elm /usr/local/bin/` is to turn the `elm` binary into a terminal command, allowing us to call it just like `ls` and `cd`.
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