Re: ? .bashrc and .bash_profile and PATH

[MH <mh@seitung.net>]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul E Condon <pecondon@quiknet.com> writes:

    Paul> I am setting up a new potato system. I am interested in
    Paul> initializing environment variables, in particular PATH. I
    Paul> see as the second line in both .bashrc and .bash_profile,
    Paul> the line:

    Paul> # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for
    Paul> examples

    Paul> But on my newly installed system, there is no "examples/"
    Paul> directory at /usr/share/doc/bash/ there is only some residue
    Paul> from a debian install.  Where are the examples? Where is
    Paul> other docs about user space initialization?


Did you install bash-doc as well?

On sid:

dpkg -L bash-doc :

[...]
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/apple
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/apple/bash.defaults.gz
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/apple/environment.gz
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/apple/login.gz
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/apple/logout.gz
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/apple/rc.gz
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/apple/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/apple/aliases.gz
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/Bash_aliases.gz
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/Bash_profile.gz
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/bash-profile.gz
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/bashrc.gz
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files/Bashrc.bfox.gz

[...]

HTH,

MH

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