permenantly set an environment variable?

slinky2004 · 11-25-2005, 06:07 PM

i want to update my $PATH to include a new folder. i can do this with "export PATH=$PATH:newfolder" but how can i make it so that this new folder is always in the path? is there some startup script i can edit that sets the path? i'm running slackware 10.2

bigrigdriver · 11-25-2005, 06:39 PM

You could edit ~/.profile and add that command at the end of the file.

den15 · 11-25-2005, 07:39 PM

edit your etc/profile file. i supose that u don't have .profile in home directory. profile in etc directory works global, so it should work.

jrdioko · 11-25-2005, 11:28 PM

/etc/profile will affect all users. If you want to just have it for one user, put it in their ~/.bash_profile