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Development Tools Console Foundations Environment and Redirection Environment Variables

Gul Asnani
Gul Asnani
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Posted by Gul Asnani
Gul Asnani
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Opening a new tab means switching to new session. So why does "PATH" get exported to a new tab?(At about 15:30 in video)

A new session is not a child process, so it should not be exported. But in the video at about 15 minutes 30 seconds, we open a new tab and see the updated PATH variable, which doesn't happen on the console provided by treehouse I'm using. EDIT: Another small doubt is, why does the PS1 variable doesn't get exported to the child processes?

nico dev
nico dev
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nico dev
nico dev
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I was wondering the same. I even went on and closed and started a new console window, then I tried signing out and in from Treehouse, and I even took it further and restarted first the browser, and finally the computer :D ... but "/home/treehouse/bin" is still first in the list of the PATH when I execute echo.

May it be related with the Landscape they use to virtualize the console?

Gul Asnani
Gul Asnani
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Gul Asnani
Gul Asnani
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Nico Trivelli but I am encountering a totally opposite problem! The video shows that the changed value of PATH variable remains intact even on opening a new tab, which is also what you observe. But in my treehouse console, opening a new tab sets the value of PATH to its original value, what should actually be according to the concept.

nico dev
nico dev
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nico dev
nico dev
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Ah no, sorry for my misunderstanding!

I then have no idea honestly about why if you're using the exact same virtual console, you get a different behavior.

Yeah, if I understood him correctly, he said that when you start a new session, the value will be initialized again top the default PATH (but it din't happen to me, although I was expecting the reason may have been the virtualization). But if you tell me yours did it exactly like that...

Let's hope someone else will bring some insight into it.