Set Environment Variable

Sean Sieger sean.sieger at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 20:01:38 UTC 2005


Robbo <ml at the-view.eclipse.co.uk> writes:

> On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 21:43 -0400, Sean Sieger wrote:
>> How do I add ~/bin to $PATH ?
>> -- 
>> Sean Sieger
>> 
>> 
>
> If you want it for everyone (others have suggested just for your own
> login) edit /etc/profile (as root).
>
>
I have added

PATH=$PATH:~/bin

to .bashrc; when I add ~/bin to my path in 'profile', do I not need it in
.bashrc any longer? Well, that will be what I be looking into. Thank you
for the answer -- it appears, for my needs, to be the correct answer.

Thank you, Robbo.
--
Sean




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