Fw: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

[Matthew Campbell <trenix25@pm.me>]

Edit /etc/bash.bashrc to make a system wide change.  Edit ~/.bashrc for the user's home directory to make a change for a specific user.


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-------- Original Message --------
On Jul 7, 2020, 6:57 AM, Stephen P. Molnar < s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

The Subject line is the problem with my Debian Buster platform. Now from
Google I see that there has been a change in the way Debian handles this
problem.

My user path statement is:

comp@AbNormal:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games

Now I have a number of applications that have multiple executable in the
app /bin subdirectory. Hence the need to add to the users PATH statement

As an example I have:

/home/comp/Apps/ADFRsuite-1.0/bin

which I would like to add to the PATH statement and:

export PATH=$PATH:'/home/comp/Apps/ADFRsuite-1.0/bin'

This works unless I open a new Terminal, in which case it is no longer
in the PATH.

How do I make the addition persistent?

Thanks in advance.

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