Re: Effect of `export PATH' not pemanent?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 11:13 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I do:
> 
> $ echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
> 
> , then
> 
> $ export PATH="$PATH:/sbin"
> $ echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/sbin
> 
> and everything all right; but the effect of `export PATH'
> is not permanent: after a while, or in another terminal, again:
> 
> $ echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
> 
> . How to make the effect of `export PATH' permanent,
> and why is it not?

You are confusing "permanent" with "spanning processes".  Unix (or
is it Shell?) won't let you affect other process' "symbol space".

As others have written, each shell instance must export PATH.

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