Re: PATH variable--where is it?
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
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Matt Garman, garman@uiuc.edu
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