removing path variables globally

Nevetsmik103081 · 07-05-2003, 02:12 PM

when I do the following:

# echo $PATH

I get:

/usr/bin : /usr/local/bin : /usr/local/jdk/bin/ : /usr/local/bin : /usr/local/someDirectoryThatDoesn'tExistAnymore

Is there a command or script that can get rid of the repeated directories and the ones that don't exist anymore?

Thanks.

Mara · 07-05-2003, 02:17 PM

There's no special command. You need to edit configuration files and remove the ones you don't need. Most of the PATH definition can be found in /etc/profiles.