[Catching up on some old mail]
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 06:56:36PM +1000, Doug Barton wrote:
>
>PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:$HOME/bin
Two comments:
a) The sbin directories are for sysadmin functions and probably shouldn't
be in users' $PATH.
b) My preference is roughly the opposite order - along the lines of
PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
My rationale (originating with commercial Unices) is that the
/usr/local tree is a way for the sysadmin to replace standard
commands with local variants. Likewise, one's personal bin
directory is a way of overriding system-wide commands.
> I added 'set -o emacs' to dot.shrc, it makes life much easier,
I agree, but this would seem to be a religious issue: Equally good
cases could presumably be made for 'set -o vi' - particularly since
the default editor is set to vi.
Peter
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