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Why debian put ~/bin beginning of $PATH



Hi all

In the ~/.profile has below default setting:

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# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
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Why put ~/bin beginning ? Is that dangerous ?

Thanks .


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