PATH confusion in BASH
According to "man bash",
When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter-
active shell with the --login option, it first reads and
executes com-
mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After
reading
that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and
~/.profile,
in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first
one that
exists and is readable.
In /etc/profile are these statements (they're the only path-related
statements in this file):
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games"
export PATH
I do not have a ~/.bash_login nor a ~/.profile. There are no
path-related statements in my ~/.bashrc, and the only path-related
statements in my ~/.bash_profile are these:
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
fi
(Interestingly, I don't see an "export PATH".)
But at a BASH prompt, this is the result:
westk[@westk03]:/home/westk> echo $PATH
/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin
which does not have my ~/bin, nor the same path as defined in
/etc/profile. Where is my path being set then?
Thanks!
--
Kent
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