The meaning of export command in Ubuntu

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Solution

This means, that your path is extended with `/usr/src/hive/build/dist/bin/`. Normally /usr/bin, /bin, /usr/sbin, etc are "in your path". If you have a programm /bin/sh, you can just type sh to run it. If you have a program in `/usr/src/hive/build/dist/bin/appname` you can just run appname to execute it.

Problem

What does `export` mean in Ubuntu? For example: ``` export PATH=$PATH:/usr/src/hive/build/dist/bin/ ```

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