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Revision as of 13:32, 3 June 2019
The current path environmental variable can be viewed
echo $PATH
capital letters on PATH. Want to know if a command is in $PATH?
which command
Need to add a directory path to the shell path statement for your own scripts?
- Per user shell
vi ~/.profile
Look for the line with a comment about "set PATH so it includes user's private bin directories" and add your custom path in there like this: ( added /myscripts to the path )
PATH="$HOME/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:/myscripts:$PATH"
note: In the past we used ~/.bash_profile and had to include "export PATH"
Look at /etc/profile which is used for each new user directory created. It has a script still looking for .bash_profile so it appears that if a .bash_profile is created, the script will identify its existence and use it.
Also note that .bashrc is executed every time a bash shell is opened and .bash_profile only if it's a login shell. Also, it appears that the default profile still looks for
