Becuase you have multiple places (in startup scripts most likely) that
do this sort of thing:
export PATH=(/new/path/element $PATH)
Armand Nossaint wrote:
>
> Why is my path written down three times in set?
>
> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/toppage/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/ga
> mes:/home/nossaint/bin:/usr/local/toppage/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/loc
> al/toppage/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games
>
> -- Armand
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