Practical limit to PATH statement length?

[Kurt Wall]

Also sprach James McDonald:
>
> all,
> 
> Just wondering if linux has an upper limit.... to the $PATH length...
> Have been installing apps in /usr/local/<app_name> and PATH is
> becoming a war and peace book.

There is, but it's something like 1024 or 2048 characters. To shorten
PATH, you can create symlinks to the /usr/local/<app_name>/<app_name_binary
in /usr/local/bin...

Kurt
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