Create variable for path to application In Linux, I type: `/home/vincent/anaconda3/bin/python` : this does go to the python shell, no problem. Now if I try to create a variable for that link such as: `PYTHONEXEC=/home/vincent/anaconda3/bin/python` If I type `PYTHONEXEC` I receive `command not found`. This is to create a variable in a crontab, but it also doesn't work when used in the shell.

This simplest solution here is to tell your shell to _expand_ the PYTHONEXEC variable before running it; you do that by prefixing a `$`, as thrig commented:


$PYTHONEXEC


If you are going to use that syntax in a crontab entry, you'll need to source a file that defines the variable before using it.