On Saturday 26 February 2005 01:40 pm, you wrote: > "Eric Bambach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >On Saturday 26 February 2005 12:17 pm, you wrote: > >> I want to prepend a directory to my PATH in my $HOME/.bashrc and export > >> the result. But I only want it to happen once: iow, if a directory I > >> want prepended is already in the PATH, do not prepend it again. > > [...] > > >sed and grep can help. > > > >echo $PATH | grep 'SOMEPATH' > >if [ $? == 0 ];then > > export PATH > >else > > PATH=NEWPATH > >fi > > > >Check the login on that though, shouldnt be too hard.
errr....check the *logic* on that. The syntax is mostly good but treat it as pseudocode. I wrote that after I just woke up ;) But I think you got the picture. > Great! > > Sorry about the double post: kmail did what I said not what > I meant. -- ---------------------------------------- --EB > All is fine except that I can reliably "oops" it simply by trying to read > from /proc/apm (e.g. cat /proc/apm). > oops output and ksymoops-2.3.4 output is attached. > Is there anything else I can contribute? The latitude and longtitude of the bios writers current position, and a ballistic missile. --Alan Cox LKML-December 08,2000 ---------------------------------------- - 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
