Discussion on: January 20th, 2022: What did you learn this week?

[Brendan Falk]

When you edit your $PATH environment variable, you don't have to use quotes

e.g. the following is perfectly valid

PATH=$PATH:/my/new/path/

I always thought you had to do the following, just in case $PATH expanded into something with a space, but it turns out it's fine either way

PATH="$PATH:/my/new/path/"

[Nick Taylor]

[Ben Halpern]

Whether quotes are needed in different languages is so inconsistent 😄

[Nick Taylor]