On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 13:53, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: [snip] > Is this procedure incorrect or what? > Can I not set the PATH by this procedure?
Yes, it's incorrect. No, you can't set the path "PERMANENTLY" by that procedure. If you had edited your ~/.bashrc as suggested by Ray, then you would be happy now. However, please be aware, if you set and export the path in a terminal session, it does not carry over to any other terminal session. By setting the path in ~/.bashrc (assuming you're running bash), it will be sourced by every terminal session as it opens. Extra credit - export is a command, and as with most other things *NIX, case sensitive. EXPORT is *not* a command, export is. SO... If I open a terminal window, and add/export /usr/local/bob/bin to my path thusly: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bob/bin Then going forward IN THAT TERMINAL SESSION, /usr/local/bob/bin is part of my path. That PATH is *lost* the moment I close that terminal session. If I want to have /usr/local/bob/bin in my path every time I open a terminal window or console, then I will put that command in my ~/.bashrc, at the bottom. export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bob/bin Then I will logout and log back in, to take advantage of the change that I have just made to the ~/.bashrc configuration file, now and going forward. HTH, .brian -- Brian Bilbrey: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and http://www.orbdesigns.com/ First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing,for verbing weirds language. Then, they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing, for I no verbs. - Peter Ellis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
