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titleOther Windows ssh/Terminal options

If your Windows version does not have ssh in Command Prompt or PowerShell:

More advanced options for those who want a full Linux environment on their Windows system:

From now on, when we refer to "Terminal", it is either the Mac/Linux Terminal program, Windows Command Prompt or PowerShell, or the PuTTY program.

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Here's how the common login script adds the ~/local/bin directory you created above, to the location list, along with a special dot character ( . ) that means "here", or "whatever the current directory is". In the statement below, colon ( : ) separates directories in the list. See Linux fundamentals: (Read more about pathname syntax)

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languagebash
titleAdding directories to PATH
export PATH=.:$HOME/local/bin:$PATH

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