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Where is PATH line located in ubuntu 12.04?

Where can I modify PATH line in ubuntu 12.04? I typed PATH=$PATH:$HOME
then typed export PATH. Home dir was in path when I looked at it with echo $PATH but went away after I relogged in. How can I make it permanent? and where exactly is it in a file in Ubuntu 12.04?

you are looking for the bash_profile

its at /home/username/.bash_profile

The magic is in ~/.profile

do you really want $HOME in path?
it is usual to have $HOME/bin in PATH

this is handled in ~/.profile

Code:

# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.

# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login

# exists.

# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.

# the files are located in the bash-doc package.



# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask

# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.

#umask 022



# if running bash

if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then

    # include .bashrc if it exists

    if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then

        . "$HOME/.bashrc"

    fi

fi



# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists

if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then

    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"

fi

simply creating bin in your home dir will trigger it

Code:

mkdir ~/bin

source ~/.profile

~/ is short for $HOME
an alternative to source ~/.profile is
. ~/.profile
note the "."<space>~/.

If you feel you must have $HOME in $PATH, you can add it ( along with any others you would like ) to the end of ~/.profile

Quote:

Originally Posted by szboardstretcher (Post 4996091)

you are looking for the bash_profile

its at /home/username/.bash_profile

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I type ls -la|less
and .bash_profile does not exist.

FIRERAT:
I did as you said and it works. I also found full Path in /etc/environment.

Thank you

I tried to mark this as solved but I got a 502 Bad Gateway error message....?

Just now tried it again and it went ok.