Re: how to change the order of directories PATH is searched?
On Sat, 20 May 2000, john smith wrote:
> I do not understand why all of a sudden some commands for root are not
> found (like adduser,ldconfig etc) looking at my path I found out that
> /usr/sbin,/sbin are not there anymore!!! strange? anyway, when I added them
> again to my path everythings back to normal now. I wonder what could have
> caused them to dissappear from my path?. now my question is I would like
> /usr/sbin and /sbin to be the first directories searched in my path instead
> them being the last directories searched (I used the command export
> PATH=$PATH:/blah blah to add them but they are the last directories
> searched. I'd like to move them to be the first directories searched.
PATH=/bah:/blah/bin:$PATH
and make sure to have also:
export PATH
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Andrew
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