Re: How to add dir to path
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:45:40 -0500
"Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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
This works but, the ~/scripts dir appear for every user?
because if /root/scripts = $HOME/scripts while runnning as root
running as other user this don't work, so if you gonna use only for
one user this solution it's okay.
Best regards,
-olr
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