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Dd April 8, 2011
Dt PATHS 3
Os
Sh NAME
Nm paths
Nd default system paths
Sh SYNOPSIS
In paths.h
Sh DESCRIPTION
The
In paths.h
header defines some default paths used in
Nx .
All defined constants are prefixed with
Dv _PATH .
The constants include:
Bl -bullet -offset indent
It
The default user search path set by
Xr login 1
and associated utilities such as
Xr rshd 8 .
This is defined by
Dv _PATH_DEFPATH
and includes directories such as
Pa /usr/bin
and
Pa /usr/local/bin .
It
Default paths for some utilities and device nodes.
Examples include such paths as
Pa /dev/null
Pq Dv _PATH_DEVNULL ,
Pa /dev/mem
Pq Dv _PATH_MEM ,
and
Pa /etc/nologin
Pq Dv _PATH_NOLOGIN ,
among others.
It
Paths for some default directories such as
Pa /dev
Pq Dv _PATH_DEV
and
Pa /tmp
Pq Dv _PATH_TMP
as well as paths for some miscellaneous utilities such as
Xr csh 1 ,
Pa /bin/csh
Pq Dv _PATH_CSHELL .
El
Sh SEE ALSO
Xr whereis 1 ,
Xr sysexits 3 ,
Xr types 3 ,
Xr hier 7
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\" .Sh HISTORY
\" The
\" .In paths.h
\" header first appeared in
\" .Bx ????
Sh CAVEATS
The
In paths.h
header is specific to
Nx .
