On Tuesday 04 August 2020 14:57:49 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 02:49:00PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > If so, are you logging in via sddm, > > > which is what KDE on Debian normally uses? > > > > probably not, but I'm talking about my own shell, which is probably > > started by the tde version of lightdm. > > So you've configured lightdm to perform an autologin? Yikes. > > Well, it probably goes through the Debian X11 session which means > you configure environment stuff in ~/.xsessionrc. > > > > the ~/.bashrc file, which will pick up the PATH change. When all > > > of the windows have been re-shelled, you can edit ~/.bashrc again > > > to remove the PATH=... command, since you don't want it to stay > > > there. > > > > But I do want it to remain, just like the $HOME/bin that prefaces to > > $PATH I can see with an echo $PATH right now. > > But you said .profile in the first email. I said .bashrc. Now you're > saying that you're actually using .bashrc and not .profile?! > I did, because that is where I found the existing $PATH defined. There is no mention of PATH in my .bashrc.
> The problem with putting PATH=... in .bashrc is that it gets read by > each shell that starts up. If you ever have a nested set of shells > (e.g. you start a terminal with a shell in it, which is shell level > one, and then you run an editor, and then from the editor you perform > a shell escape, which is now shell level two...) then you end up with > duplicate entries in PATH. Yes, pita to clear them out too. > In the most degenerate cases you can end up with > PATH=/foo:/foo:/foo:.... > > That's why you usually try to put some effort into finding the *one* > place that you can add a directory to your PATH *one* time, without > breaking anything. Precisely. > > But if you prefer to be lazy, then sure, go ahead and use .bashrc and > end up with repeated eternally long PATH entries. And thats a bad dog, no biscuit. Thanks. I guess I'll reboot but that rather resembles using a sledgehammer on a gnat. So since I don't seem to able to express what I want with the whole world assuming I am logging in from a remote terminal, I'll close the thread with a reboot as I can setup the rest of my working env in 10 to 15 minutes, what I was trying to avoid. Thank you Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
