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Re: .bash_profile never read in X



Paul D. Smith wrote:
 
> If that's really the exact output you get, the answer is obvious; you
> don't have ``/home/carlf/bin'' on your PATH.
> 
> You do, however, have ``/home/carlf/bin)'' on your path, a directory which,
> I assume, doesn't exist.
> 
> Hint: this is Bourne shell, not C shell; you never put parentheses around
> variable values.

Ouch.

I copied the syntax from some example file years ago and never thought
about it until you pointed that out.  Thanks.
-- 
Carl Fink		carlf@dm.net


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