On Aug 10, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Wayne Topa wrote:
I have never seen this way of defining a path [ PATH=~/XX:"${PATH}" ]
I learned PATH="a path:a new path" everything inclosed in quotes. I
think (?) i tried your way yesterday and got strange results but I
deleted that test file so ....
I've always just done:
export PATH=$PATH:/stuff/I/want/to/add
This keeps the system path in place.
I've never had to use quotes, but I guess if you had pathnames with
characters in them that had to be escaped, like spaces, it might be a
good idea.
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