Is there a "PATH" equivalent in Kubunto?

Jonas Norlander jonorland at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 10:52:03 UTC 2008


2008/3/25, Alexander Smirnov <alexander.v.smirnov at gmail.com>:
> John DeCarlo wrote:
>  >
>  >     And where should i be looking for this information? I ask bc i
>  >     have no idea, and i feel kinda guilty of bothering ppl before
>  >     trying to find out what i need to know first.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > You will need to edit a file to make the change permanent.
>  >
>  > Others will point to a tutorial, I suspect.
>  >
>  > You can change it for yourself by hitting Alt-F2 and typing "kate
>  > ~/.profile" and look for the PATH variable already being changed.
>
> Hmmmm... i always thought that ~/.profile is ksh-specific startup file
>  Similar file for bash shell is ~/.bash_profile

Both ksh and bash is backward compatible with bourn shell so perhaps it's
there from the ~/.profile file comes.

/ Jonas




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