Re: adding to PATH

[Richard Harran <95rmwh@eng.cam.ac.uk>]

I'm not sure exactly where your path is coming from.  However, a couple
of points:  you need
	export PATH
somewhere to make PATH part of the global environment (not just limited
to within the profile script;  you can extent the path thus:
	export PATH=$PATH:<addition to end of path>
or
	export PATH=<addition to beginning of path>:$PATH

What you set in /etc/profile should (according to the FM) should be read
whenever you open a login shell, so maybe you just forgot to export the
PATH.  The only other place I think this could be set is ~/.profile, so
you might want to check that out.

HTH
Rich


Arcady Genkin wrote:
> 
> Hi all:
> 
> I'm having a problem adding to a system-wide PATH variable... I've
> added the following in /etc/profile:
> PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/java/bin"
> 
> However, "echo $PATH" produces:
> 
> ./:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin
> 
> My ~/.bashrc and ~/bash_profile do not contain anything to do with
                    ^^
probably just a typo (should have '.')

> PATH variable. SO where is the system-wide PATH specified?
> 
> Also, how do I dynamically add to the PATH variable in bash?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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