On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:04:15PM +0200, Manon Metten wrote: > > 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:$HOME/scripts > > > > I've tried some of the other ways discussed in the thread, and they > > didn't work. I hope this helps. > > Thanks for your reply. I already discovered that adding it to .bash_profile > doesn't work, but to .bashrc does. But someone told me it should belong > in .bash_profile. > > Well, I don't know, but adding it to .bashrc works and I'm glad to know > that I'm not the only one with this 'problem'. It works as it should on my system: amp@think:~$ grep Hello .bash* .bash_profile:echo "Hello from bash_profile" .bashrc:echo "Hello from bashrc" amp@think:~$ bash Hello from bashrc amp@think:~$ exit exit amp@think:~$ bash --login Hello from bashrc Hello from bash_profile amp@think:~$ Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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