On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Ken Weingold wrote: > I am getting a new shell account where I am limited 50 megs of space. > Even though I use my own patched version of mutt, they do have it > installed. What I want to do is use the mutt binary from ~/bin, but > use the rest of the stuff from the system directories. What is the > best way to do this? I am thinking I guess about compile parameters, > etc.
> Thanks.
One option would be to put ~/bin into your $PATH statement.
I use bash and it is setup in my ~/.bash_profile file.
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
PATH="./:~/bin:/usr/lib/xscreensaver:${PATH}"
fi
HTH
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Knute
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