How can I quickly determine if a variable has been assigned a path without my specification? | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

ocean sorrel Feb 29, 2024, 8:30 PM

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I've checked /etc/profile, /etc/profile.d/, ~/.bash_profile, bashrc, bash_profile, .profile but springboot is still being pathed without me explicitly pathing it.

honest forum Feb 29, 2024, 11:22 PM

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Have you checked:

/etc/environment
/etc/security/pam_env.conf
~/.config/environment.d/

But you can also use ripgrep to quickly search for all text files containing PATH=, or your actual path.

Eg:

rg -g '!/proc' -g '!/sys' -g '!/dev' -g '!/tmp' -g '!/usr/*' -g '!/opt' -g '!/var/lib' --no-follow '\bPATH=' / 2>/dev/null

or

rg -g '!/proc' -g '!/sys' -g '!/dev' -g '!/tmp' -g '!/usr/*' -g '!/opt' -g '!/var/lib' --no-follow '\.local/bin\b' / 2>/dev/null

Where .local/bin is the path I'm looking for. Uses standard regex rules btw.

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-g '!path' is to exclude a path from your searching, to speed up searches. Feel free to exclude more paths specific to you, such as /mnt etc

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 1:40 AM

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Ill do all this rn and send screenshots ❤️

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etc/enviroment
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# This file is parsed by pam_env module
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# Syntax: simple "KEY=VAL" pairs on separate lines
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export VDPAU_DRIVER=nvidia
export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=vdpau

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/etc/security/pam_env.conf

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i dont have an enviroment.d

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outputs of commands

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└──>>find / -type d -name "Spring" 2>/dev/null
/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/SpringBoot
/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.cache/JetBrains/IdeaIC2023.1/vcs-log/Springb_9fbc23f1_bae096b4
/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.cache/JetBrains/IdeaIC2023.1/compile-server/springboot_app_7c80e887/targets/java-production/Springboot_App_2a1e7100
/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.cache/JetBrains/IdeaIC2023.1/compile-server/springboot_app_7c80e887/targets/resources-production/Springboot_App_2a1e7100
/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.cache/JetBrains/IdeaIC2023.1/compile-server/springboot_app_7c80e887/targets/maven-annotations-production/Springboot_App_2a1e7100
/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.cache/JetBrains/IdeaIC2023.1/frameworks/detection/Springboot App.9fbc23f1
/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.cache/JetBrains/IdeaIC2023.3/frameworks/detection/SpringbootProject.78a8b23b
┌─[15:56:41]──[khalidwaleedkhedr]──[KhalidComputer]:$~$
└──>>
output of find / -type d -name "Spring" 2>/dev/null

sage bladeBOT Mar 1, 2024, 1:57 AM

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honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 1:57 AM

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Type which springboot

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 1:58 AM

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which Spring
which: no Spring in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/android-sdk/cmdline-tools/latest/bin:/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.spicetify:/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.local/bin:/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/SpringBoot/bin:/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox/scripts:/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin)

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but Spring is working

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 1:58 AM

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What's the actual executable called?

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 1:58 AM

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the command is Spring

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the path to it is ~/SpringBoot/bin

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it's recongized in my paths but i never put it in my bashrc

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 1:59 AM

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and if you type 'Spring' in the terminal, it launches?

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 1:59 AM

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yes

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but idk how it exists in my paths if it isnt declared

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ill share my bashrc

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 1:59 AM

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Could be a bash function or alias then

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:00 AM

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📎 message.txt

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my apologies for all the spam

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i spent hours trying to understand

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and im keeping documentation for anyone who wants to help

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i can share my other .bash files

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:02 AM

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Yep.

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:02 AM

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want me to share them?

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# ~/.bash_profile
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[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc

if [[ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ]]; then
   pgrep i3 || startx "~/.config/X11/xinitrc"
fi

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#!/bin/sh

xrandr --setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0
xrandr --auto

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then







    xrdb -merge $sysresources

fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then







    xrdb -merge "$userresources"

fi

if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
    xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi

# start some nice programs

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
 for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do
  [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
 done
 unset f
fi

picom &
exec i3

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my .profile is empty

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which Springboot
which: no Springboot in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/android-sdk/cmdline-tools/latest/bin:/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.spicetify:/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.local/bin:/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/SpringBoot/bin:/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox/scripts:/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin)

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find / -type d -name "*Spring*" 2>/dev/null
/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/SpringBoot
/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.cache/JetBrains/IdeaIC2023.1/vcs-log/Springb_9fbc23f1_bae096b4
/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.cache/JetBrains/IdeaIC2023.1/compile-server/springboot_app_7c80e887/targets/java-production/Springboot_App_2a1e7100
/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.cache/JetBrains/IdeaIC2023.1/compile-server/springboot_app_7c80e887/targets/resources-production/Springboot_App_2a1e7100
/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.cache/JetBrains/IdeaIC2023.1/compile-server/spring
boot_app_7c80e887/targets/maven-annotations-production/Springboot_App_2a1e7100
/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.cache/JetBrains/IdeaIC2023.1/frameworks/detection/Springboot App.9fbc23f1
/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.cache/JetBrains/IdeaIC2023.3/frameworks/detection/SpringbootProject.78a8b23b

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all instances of Spring ^

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:06 AM

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Run this:

rg -g '!/proc' -g '!/sys' -g '!/dev' -g '!/tmp' -g '!/usr/*' -g '!/opt' -g '!/var/lib' --no-follow 'SpringBoot/bin\b' / 2>/dev/null

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:07 AM

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blank

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honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:10 AM

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Could try temporarily renaming the ~SpringBoot/bin folder to say bin.bak or something. Then reboot and check the journalctl logs for any errors, that way it would show which program it was that tried to interact with that path. And we can proceed from there.

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:10 AM

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will do that now

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i appreciate your support and help, again my apologies for being overly spammy

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:11 AM

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No worries

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:12 AM

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will reboot rn

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want me to do journalctl

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:15 AM

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Yep

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:15 AM

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any specific command? i can journalctl -p err and journalctl -p err | grep -iE 'file not found|permission denied|file system error'

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:15 AM

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Yep. Could also grep for SpringBoot

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:16 AM

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nothing lol

sage bladeBOT Mar 1, 2024, 2:16 AM

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ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:16 AM

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└──>>journalctl -p err
Feb 29 16:12:40 KhalidComputer kernel: integrity: Problem loading X.509 certificate -65
Feb 29 16:12:44 KhalidComputer kernel: amdgpu 0000:06:00.0: amdgpu: Secure display: Generic Failure.
Feb 29 16:12:44 KhalidComputer kernel: amdgpu 0000:06:00.0: amdgpu: SECUREDISPLAY: query securedisplay TA failed. ret 0x0
Feb 29 16:12:45 KhalidComputer bluetoothd[594]: src/adapter.c:reset_adv_monitors_complete() Failed to reset Adv Monitors: Failed (0x03)
Feb 29 16:12:45 KhalidComputer bluetoothd[594]: Failed to clear UUIDs: Failed (0x03)
Feb 29 16:12:46 KhalidComputer kernel: 
┌─[16:14:07]──[khalidwaleedkhedr]──[KhalidComputer]:$~$
└──>>journalctl -p err | grep -iE 'file not found|permission denied|file system error'
┌─[16:14:52]──[khalidwaleedkhedr]──[KhalidComputer]:$~$
└──>>journalctl | grep springboot
┌─[16:16:22]──[khalidwaleedkhedr]──[KhalidComputer]:$~$
└──>>

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:17 AM

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How about Spring?

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:17 AM

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nothing

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:17 AM

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And don't forget to use -i for case insensitive match

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:18 AM

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└──>>journalctl | grep Spring
┌─[16:17:18]──[khalidwaleedkhedr]──[KhalidComputer]:$~$
└──>>journalctl | grep -i Spring    
┌─[16:18:00]──[khalidwaleedkhedr]──[KhalidComputer]:$~$
└──>>

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└──>>echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/android-sdk/cmdline-tools/latest/bin:/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.spicetify:/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.local/bin:/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/SpringBoot/bin:/home/khalidwaleedkhedr/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox/scripts:/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin

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somehow still in my path

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think my laptop is cursed and needs to be thrown into mount doom ngl

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:20 AM

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And are you sure you're only using bash? Not zsh or fish or something like that?

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:20 AM

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i have zsh

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:20 AM

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Is that what you're typing those commands on?

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:21 AM

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this is my .zshc

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and that's all i have

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:22 AM

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How about ~/.zshenv, ~/.zprofile, and ~/.zlogin

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:22 AM

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i gives u my secrets

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:24 AM

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Can you try running bash directly? Like configure some terminal (Konsole or something) to launch bash as the startup command

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And check your PATH there

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:26 AM

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sure!

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lemme figure out how to do that

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i am dumb

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sorry its taking a bit

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:34 AM

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np

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:37 AM

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ok

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i think i did it

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:38 AM

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You're in bash now?

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:38 AM

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shell /bin/bash i added this to my kitty conf

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~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf

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📎 message.txt

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echo $SHELL returns bin/bash and echo $PATH still shows me Spring despite ~/SpringBoot/bin.bak

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:41 AM

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Can you run echo $0

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:42 AM

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honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:44 AM

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Can you also run ps -p $PPID -o comm=

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:44 AM

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returns kitty

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do u want an image for proof or are you ok with me telling you that

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:44 AM

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Nah all good

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Just wanted to check that it's running bash directly

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:44 AM

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i switched to kde to make it easier lol

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:45 AM

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and seems like there's nothing special in your kitty.conf either

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:45 AM

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ye

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im probably overreacting

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but im just worried for future stuff if pathing springboot is gunna cause depedency issues

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or instability issues

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i just dont get it

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:46 AM

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Well you can always rename the folder unless something needs that folder to be called exactly that

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:46 AM

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dont understand why it's still pathing

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:47 AM

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At this point I'm outta ideas lol

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:47 AM

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Spring isnt working since i renamed it

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bin.bak

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still pathed as /bin

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fixed the name and spring works again

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:48 AM

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Not really familiar with Spring sorry so can't help you with that but normally you'd want to use a dev container to avoid issues like this

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:49 AM

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i could have used dockers but im not that profecient at coding youre correct

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ill maintain what i have; my only last resort is it has something to do with a startup application like jetbrains toolbox

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but i dont wish to go through the rabbithole of checking every application on start

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regardless; i appreciate your time and professionalism truly.

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you were helpful and i learned a lot

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:51 AM

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All good, but seriously you should check out containers, they're there to deal exactly with issues like these, and they make development a lot more easier.

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:51 AM

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i am doing that as we speak

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this whole endevour was for me to learn springboot since im looking for work

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im a newly graduate that earned my second degree

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:52 AM

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Ah OK

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:52 AM

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and then this wasted my day

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:52 AM

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Nah, you learnt some things so I wouldn't call it a waste. 🙂

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It's all part of the experience. 🙂

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 2:52 AM

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❤️ i like u btw ur cool

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k ill leave ya to do cool things ty 4 help

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 2:53 AM

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Cool, all the best!

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 11:58 PM

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honest forum Cool, all the best!

hey, i figured it out

honest forum Mar 1, 2024, 11:58 PM

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ocean sorrel hey, i figured it out

Oh?

ocean sorrel Mar 1, 2024, 11:59 PM

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it was because of a script i wrote aeons ago

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that made all paths public

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in my etc/profile.d

#How can I quickly determine if a variable has been assigned a path without my specification?