path 1. (file system) pathname.
2. (networking) A bang path or explicitly routed Internet address; a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines. 3. (operating system) The list of directories the kernel (under Unix) or the command interpreter (under MS-DOS) searches for executables. It is stored as part of the environment in both operating systems. Other, similar constructs abound under Unix; the C preprocessor, for example, uses such a search path to locate "#include" files. [Jargon File] Last updated: 1996-11-21