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@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Testing OCI runtimes
 ```
 $ make
 $ sudo make install
-$ sudo ./test_runtime.sh -r runc
+$ sudo env "PATH=$PATH" ./test_runtime.sh -r runc
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 VALIDATING RUNTIME: runc
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