Re: How to add a new dir to my PATH?

[Bruno Buys <brunobuys@gmail.com>]

Dan Martins wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 04:48:52PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
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> > On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 19:43:00 -0500
> > Dan Martins <dan-martins@rogers.com> wrote:
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> > > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 02:31:52PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote:
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> > > > I am trying to figure out which file I shall edit, in order to add an 
> > > > extra dir to my PATH ($HOME/bin).
> > > > If I log on to my debian sarge in text mode, my .bash_profile is read. 
> > > > If I log right to X (kdm), it doesn't. The same happens to .bashrc.
> > > > Thanks!
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> > > ~/.bash_profile should be read when the shell is opened as a login
> > > shell, ie. from the console you enter username and password.
> > >
> > > ~/.bashrc should be read when a shell is opened through xterm, aterm,
> > > Konsole, etc.
> > >
> > > The easiest thing i've found is to add "source ~/.bashrc" to
> > > .bash_profile and "export PATH="......"" to ~/.bashrc
> > >
> > > The only reason i can think of not to do this is if your .bashrc and
> > > .bash_profile set up your shell differently from each other. In my case
> > > they're both empty except for changing my $PATH. If you run into trouble
> > > I guess you could change your $PATH variable in a different file and
> > > then source that file from both bash scripts.
> > >
> > > Anyone see a problem with this?
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> > fwiw, my system has no ~/.bash_profile and my ~/.bashrc sources /etc/profile which is the global profile. 
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> Ok, but ~/.bashrc shouldn't be read from if bash is started as a login
> shell, unless debian doesn't follow the invocation section of the bash
> man page.
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> Sourcing ~/.bashrc from ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, or ~/.profile
> ensures you have the same $PATH in your plain old terminals as you do in
> X.
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Seems like the only file being sourced was /etc/bash.bashrc. I added

. /etc/profile

to it, then

. $HOME/.bash_profile

to /etc/profile. Now my bash_profile gets read, always. It already has a 
test to check if I have a 'bin' dir on my home dir.

Apparently the issue is solved, so thanks for everybody's inputs. But it 
looks weird, to me. How come there's .bash_profile and .bashrc on my 
home, that aren't read when the systems loads right to X? Or, I can't 
set my env, when in X by any other means...