adding a path

Stephen R Laniel steve at laniels.org
Wed Nov 15 15:19:40 UTC 2006


On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 10:21:56AM -0500, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> How do I add a path to my login? For example, I want to add /opt as I have some
> stuff installed there that I want to be able to execute?

If you're running bash, as I presume you are, then you edit
~/.bashrc and add the following line:

export PATH=$PATH:/opt

Cheers,
Steve

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