Re: How to add dir to path

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 08/07/2007 10:32 AM, Manon Metten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to add the dir ~/scripts to my path, what command do I use for that?
>
> M> echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
>
> But how do I add ~/scripts to that path?
>
> Thanks, Manon.

I believe the correct way to do this is to set the path in ~/.bashrc. 
Set it like so:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:$HOME/scripts

I've tried some of the other ways discussed in the thread, and they 
didn't work. I hope this helps.