On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 07:36:00AM -0800, Roger Heflin wrote:
Trick is add this around the path add.

If [ $path_add -ne 1 ] ; then
Path addition code
Path_add=1
Fi

That only runs it once.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 4:09 AM Anil F Duggirala <anilduggir...@fastmail.fm>
wrote:

hello,
I would like to change the $PATH environment variable permanently, to
be able to execute a program more quickly.
I have tried adding a new line: export PATH=$PATH:/my/path , to my
.bashrc .
When I log in again, I see that $PATH is now: $PATH:/my/path/:/my/path,
my directory has been appended twice.
I don't know exactly what the "export" command actually does, so I am
lost here.
thanks for your help.

Conceptually similar to Roger's approach, I set an environment
variable "OrigPATH" to the initial PATH then assign PATH based
on OrigPATH.

# save a copy of the original path to modify
export OrigPATH=${OrigPATH:-$PATH}
# adjust PATH from OrigPATH to my tastes
export PATH=$HOME/bin:$OrigPATH:/my/path


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