bash_profile question

Kenton Brede kbrede at nixnotes.org
Mon Apr 4 22:13:40 UTC 2005


On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:40:51PM -0400, Paul Pianta (ppianta at videotron.ca) wrote:
> Hi
> 
> My default ~/.bash_profile has the following in it ...
> 
> # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
> if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
>     PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
> fi
> 

After you are done uncommenting the lines above in .bash_profile, source
the file at the command line like so -

$ . .bash_profile
or
$ source .bash_profile

No need to log in and out.
Kent

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  - Martin Luther King Jr.





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