Your shell path is a bunch of absolute paths of the filing system separated by colons : You can just type the command, regardless of where you are in the filing system: myscript.sh So instead of running something like this, with a path to the command or script: /Users/yourusername/bin/myscript.sh
The shell path for a user in macOS is a set of paths in the filing system whereby the user has permissions to use certain applications, commands and programs without the need to specify the full path to that command or program in the Terminal.
