HowTo: Display / Echo Path Settings In Linux / UNIX / *BSD

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To display or echo the PATH environment variable in Linux/UNIX/*BSD, you can use the echo command in the terminal. The PATH variable contains a colon-separated list of directories that the system searches for executables.

Here are the steps to display the PATH variable:

  1. Open a terminal window.
  2. Type the following command:
    echo $PATH

    This will display the value of the PATH variable on your system.

If you want to see the directories in the PATH variable listed one per line, you can use the tr command to replace the colons with newlines:

echo $PATH | tr ':' '\n'

This will display the directories in the PATH variable, one per line.

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