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FWIW, Windows
assuming that that's where you're coming from
has a PATH environment variable too. It's just less common to invoke things directly by executable name on Windows in 2026, or to modify it, so it doesn't come up much. If you type
echo %PATH%in cmd.com on Windows, you'll see something similar.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(variable)#DOS,_OS/2,_and_Windows