What does the bash environment variable PATH control?

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The directories searched, in order, to find executable commands — PATH is a colon-separated list of directories the shell searches to locate a command typed without a full path. Library lookup uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and the working directory is tracked separately as PWD.

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The directories the dynamic linker searches for shared libraries

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The current working directory used by relative file paths

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The list of directories backed up by the system's cron jobs

What does the bash environment variable PATH control?

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