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| + | == Ways to set $PATH == | ||
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| + | The PATH can be set in any of | ||
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| + | ~/.bashrc | ||
| + | ~/.profile | ||
| + | ~/.bash_profile | ||
| + | ~/.bash_login | ||
| + | /etc/profile | ||
| + | /etc/environment | ||
| + | /etc/bash.bashrc | ||
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| + | Which ones are read depends on the kind of bash session you are running. What you want to do is grep for PATH in all these files. | ||
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| + | $ grep PATH ~/.bashrc ~/.profile ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_login \ | ||
| + | /etc/profile /etc/environment /etc/bash.bashrc | ||
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| + | I have a nifty little bash function for just this sort of issue: | ||
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| + | grep_bash(){ | ||
| + | for f in ~/.bashrc ~/.profile ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_login \ | ||
| + | /etc/profile /etc/environment /etc/bash.bashrc; | ||
| + | do | ||
| + | [ -e $f ] && grep -H "$@" $f; | ||
| + | done | ||
| + | } | ||
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| + | I have that in my .bashrc so whenever something strange is going on, I use it to look for the relevant string in all possible config files. For example: | ||
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| + | $ grep_bash PATH | ||
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| + | As a side note, not having /sbin and /usr/sbin in a normal user's PATH is standard practice for most distributions. There is no reason for a normal user to have these directories in their path. I just checked on a Debian, and Ubuntu Server and a SuSe machine and only the Ubuntu seems to add /sbin to a normal user's path and it does so in /etc/environment. The other two only add it if the user is root. | ||
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Thunar
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Ways to set $PATH
The PATH can be set in any of
~/.bashrc ~/.profile ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_login /etc/profile /etc/environment /etc/bash.bashrc
Which ones are read depends on the kind of bash session you are running. What you want to do is grep for PATH in all these files.
$ grep PATH ~/.bashrc ~/.profile ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_login \
/etc/profile /etc/environment /etc/bash.bashrc
I have a nifty little bash function for just this sort of issue:
grep_bash(){
for f in ~/.bashrc ~/.profile ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_login \
/etc/profile /etc/environment /etc/bash.bashrc;
do
[ -e $f ] && grep -H "$@" $f;
done
}
I have that in my .bashrc so whenever something strange is going on, I use it to look for the relevant string in all possible config files. For example:
$ grep_bash PATH
As a side note, not having /sbin and /usr/sbin in a normal user's PATH is standard practice for most distributions. There is no reason for a normal user to have these directories in their path. I just checked on a Debian, and Ubuntu Server and a SuSe machine and only the Ubuntu seems to add /sbin to a normal user's path and it does so in /etc/environment. The other two only add it if the user is root.
