~ / bin is in PATH

closed account (oj2wbRfi)
why the commands located in ~ / bin can be run from anywhere?

That's not necessarily true. However, many login scripts add ~/bin in the path.

You can see the path with:
env | egrep "\bPATH="
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closed account (oj2wbRfi)
it maybe I asked the question in incorrect way,

I mean If ~ / bin is in PATH it means that commands located in ~ / bin can be run from anywhere.
Yes.
From man bash:
Environment variable PATH
The search path for commands. It is a colon-separated list of directories in which the shell looks for commands

Command execution
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If the [command] name is neither a shell function nor a builtin, and contains no slashes, bash searches each element of the PATH for a directory containing an executable file by that name.
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