Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World"

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Subject	Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World"
Date	2023-11-03 06:50 +0100
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On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 04:34:42PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:

[...]

> ANOTHER LESSON LEARNED
> 
> While I was experimenting with the desktop settings, I stupidly and blindly
> added an exit line to cut out some 20-year old cruft in the end of the
>  .profile file and all of a sudden I lost my xterms and couldn't find a way
> to edit the broken file [...]

There's always the Linux console, usually to be found at CTRL-F<something>

That <something> tends to vary because the young-uns like to move it
around. For me it's CTRL-F1, but others will chime in on what is fashionable
these days.

Cheers
-- 
t

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PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-24 16:30 +0200
  Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-24 16:50 +0200
    Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-09-24 20:40 +0200
    Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2023-09-24 20:40 +0200
  Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-09-24 19:30 +0200
  Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2023-09-24 23:30 +0200
    Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-24 23:50 +0200
      Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-09-25 00:10 +0200
        Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-25 00:30 +0200
          Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-25 13:10 +0200
            Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-25 16:00 +0200
              Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-25 16:50 +0200
                Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-09-25 17:10 +0200
                Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-26 22:40 +0200
                Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-09-26 23:10 +0200
              Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-09-25 18:20 +0200
                Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-26 16:10 +0200
                Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-09-26 16:30 +0200
                Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-27 01:20 +0200
                Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-27 01:40 +0200
                Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-27 03:20 +0200
        Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-09-25 17:30 +0200
  Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-10-27 17:00 +0200
    Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2023-10-27 19:00 +0200
      Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-10-27 19:00 +0200
        Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-10-27 20:50 +0200
          Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-27 21:00 +0200
            Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2023-10-27 23:00 +0200
            Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-10-28 06:40 +0200
              Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2023-10-28 07:10 +0200
          Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-10-28 06:30 +0200
            Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-10-29 15:30 +0100
  Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-11-02 22:40 +0100
    Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World" <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-11-03 06:50 +0100

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