Re: /etc/profile should include sbin in PATH
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, David Welton wrote:
: On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 03:36:29PM +0000, jesdynf wrote:
: >
: > > Why is it so difficult for you to take sbin out of your path if you
: > > don't want it? While we may not be 'forcing' anyone to do anything,
: >
: > Uhm, can you tell me HOW to take something -out- of my path without
: > resorting to sed or Perl?
:
: Use emacs. Or vi.
... and end up with a hard coded path which doesn't ever reflect changes
made to /etc/profile without manual intervention.
The question wasn't how to replace PATH, but how to remove a value from
it. How do you do that without sed or perl?
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