Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:29:47AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:17:37PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 04:14:16PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> > > cd ~/bin
> > > ln -s ../opt/something/bin/something
> >
> > Not in the default PATH either.
>
> $HOME/bin is placed into the user's default PATH by Debian's ~/.profile
> (the one in /etc/skel/.profile) if it exists at the time the ~/.profile
> is read, if the ~/.profile is read at all.
>
> As I keep saying, of course, what dot files actually get read depends
> on how one logs in.
That souds mildly disconcerting - when does `~/.profile` _not_ get read?
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