Re: Error when setting path

[Thomas Krennwallner <djmaecki@ull.at>]

Hi!

On Sun Aug 17, 2003 at 02:11:45PM +0200, Wayne Gemmell wrote:
> When I try to append to my current path I get the following output
> 
> wayne@Wuler:~$ export $PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/bin/
> bash: export: 
> `/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/bin/': 
> not a valid identifier

Use following instead:

$ export PATH=/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2/bin:$PATH

$PATH dereferences the PATH environment variable and so the shell tries
to use the content of PATH as an envvar which is in this case not a
valid identifier ;-)

So long
Thomas

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