The command PATH=$PATH:/home/John does the following:

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The command PATH=$PATH:/home/John does the following:

Creates a new PATH variable with only the /home/John directory as the value
Does nothing, because anything after the : is discarded
Appends the directory /home/John to the existing PATH variable
Replaces the existing directories in the PATH with the /home/John directory

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