Re: adding to PATH

When Richard Harran wrote, I replied: To be safe, it's best to set your path on an early line in the file: PATH=whatever:something:else and later (perhaps the next line) export the variable(s): export PATH HOME ... This is so other shells which don't allow export and set variable on the same line

Re: adding to PATH

I believe /etc/profile IS the place where the system-wide default PATH is defined. Are you sure it isn't being changed somewhere in .bashrc or .bash_profile? anyway, to add to it, you'd do this: PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/java/bin -Brad On 25 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > I'm having a problem addi

Re: adding to PATH

I'm not sure exactly where your path is coming from. However, a couple of points: you need export PATH somewhere to make PATH part of the global environment (not just limited to within the profile script; you can extent the path thus: export PATH=$PATH: or export PATH=:$P

adding to PATH

Hi all: I'm having a problem adding to a system-wide PATH variable... I've added the following in /etc/profile: PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/java/bin" However, "echo $PATH" produces: ./:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin My ~/.bashrc and ~/b