Glossary
$PATH When you try to enter a command on the (Linux or Mac) command line, your computer needs to know where it can look for the instructions related to that command. The $PATH variable is a list of all the directories where the command line should look for instructions related to a given command.
(Google) Chrome An open source web browser whose largest contributor is Google.
absolute path In a file system, an absolute path gives the full path to a file or directory, starting with the root directory.
abstraction The details of how a system work are hidden so that you don’t have to understand how the system works to be able to use the system. A car engine is an abstraction, and a programming language is an abstraction. Abstractions allow ...
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