Re: gnome-shell: can't change PATH at gnome-shell level

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 12:19:52 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> I suggest to inspect PATH for each parent process PID in the tree reported
> by
> 
>     ps xwf
> 
> e.g. with proper PID number (single line)
> 
>     while IFS='' read -r -d ''; do if [[ "$REPLY" = PATH* ]]; then echo
> "$REPLY"; break; fi; done </proc/PID/environ

FYI you could also use:

    grep -z ^PATH= /proc/PID/environ | tr \\0 \\n

Or leave off the |tr if you don't mind having the result squashed together
with the next shell prompt.  Or replace |tr with ;echo to add a newline.