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On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 05:03:18PM -0400, Bradley Molnar wrote:
> I can't remember how to change my path variable ($PATH) and also how to
> change it so it stays even after I logout.
What shell are you using?
For Bourne shell variants (sh, bash, ksh, ash, zsh):
export PATH=${PATH}:<add stuff here>
(The inclusion of the variable expansion will keep your existing
path. I'm presuming you just want to add stuff.)
Put the above in ~/.profile to get it used by default.
For C shell variants (csh, tcsh):
setenv PATH ${PATH}:<add stuff here>
Put that in ~/.cshrc for it to exist every login.
$PATH is a colon separated list of directories (WITHOUT a trailing
slash!). C shell also uses a space separated list called $path and
does some kind of magic to merge the two. But it's probably better to
just stick with $PATH so you don't get confused even if you have to
switch shell types.
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~ g r @ eclipsed.net
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