Re: PATH variable--where is it?
Tnx Matt,
You get the credit, only because you beat San & Edward by 2 and 13 min
respectively.
This looks to be just what I need. Presumeably I can define CLASSPATH
and PYTHONPATH et al. in the same file.
tnx agn
gt
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:52:11 -0600, you wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:11:38PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
>> I give up. This is making me nuts. Where is the path variable stored?
>> I assumed that it would show up in .bashrc or .bash_profile. It's not
>> there. I can export path= for that session on that console, but I can't
>> locate the global. echo $PATH or env shows me the value just fine.
>> I've pored over the literature enough to know that damn near everything
>> from shell to Java to Python and points in between use one path variable
>> or another, but other than the export command I don't know how to change
>> them.
>
>There really is no general, "easy" solution to this problem, given that
>all users on your system might be using any of a number of different
>shells.
>
>For Bourne-like shells (sh, ash, bash, ksh), check out the file
>/etc/profile. There should be a default one in place already.
>
>
>Keep in mind, though, if you have other shells, you'll have to edit more
>files. For example, zsh has a couple files in etc: /etc/zsh* (zsh
>*might* read /etc/profile---or you might be able to symlink /etc/profile
>to one or more of the /etc/zsh* files). I never use any of the csh
>family of shells (csh, tcsh), but I noticed I do have some /etc/csh*
>files.
>
>Hope that helps!
>Matt
>
>--
>Matt Garman, garman@uiuc.edu
>I find it truly amazing that social progress exists in light of the vast
>number of people who would rather persue shallow, unconsequential
>personal goals than try to contribute to civilization.
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