>The order above is important, local must come before existing PATHs for lower precedence so that it cannot override higher privilege bins You've got the order

>The order above is important, local must come before existing PATHs for lower precedence so that it cannot override higher privilege bins You've got the order reversed there - the first item found in your PATH will be used, and therefore earlier directories in your PATH have higher precedence: jfred@lambdacrypt ~$ cat dir1/pathtest #!/run/current-system/profile/bin/bash echo "script in dir1" jfred@lambdacrypt ~$ cat dir2/pathtest #!/run/current-system/profile/bin/bash echo "script in dir2" jfred@lambdacrypt ~$ PATH=$HOME/dir1:$HOME/dir2 pathtest script in dir1