$PATH not working

How can this happen?

 jon@vaio:~/brickify$ /usr/bin/node -v v0.8.11 jon@vaio:~/brickify$ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games jon@vaio:~/brickify$ node -v jon@vaio:~/brickify$

/usr/bin is in $PATH, so just writing node -v should work the same as writing /usr/bin/node -v

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You can see which version of a program is being invoked by using the which command, e.g.

which node

/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games$

You have to remove the $ sign from end oth the PATH value

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