When I wrote this i probably should have mentioned that you are likely to want to manipulate the PATH environment variable, to select which will win when running additional commands between system binaries, splunk-provided binaries and any custom binaries (eg in usr/local or special paths) in case of name conflict.
This is typically relevant for bzip2, python itself, cherryd, the openssl utility program, node.js's node executable, but but more executables could possibly be added to splunk in the future.
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