Adding directory to path - Was Re: [newbie] Making file excecutable

2003-07-07 Thread Chris
On Monday 07 July 2003 04:17 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:28:49 +0200 Johan Scheepers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: OK I did chmod 755 to them and now they show up green. Can be executed with./xx. They are in my home directory. well, on my system, I created a dir

Re: Adding directory to path - Was Re: [newbie] Making file excecutable

2003-07-07 Thread David E Fox
Ok, dumb newbie question here, how does one go about editing the path? Usually edit .bash_profile PATH={$PATH}:/new export PATH The trick is to take the existing value of PATH ($PATH), append new data to it, and then PATH becomes the sum of the two. Chris