set path with output from text file.

jstephens84 · 12-03-2006, 11:37 PM

What I am trying to accomplish is to set my $PATH variable with a information from a text file. What I have done was first create the text file by doing the following.

Code:

echo $PATH >> path.txt

I then edited the path file. Now I need to set the Path variable with the new information in there. Any insights would help.

naihe2010 · 12-04-2006, 12:34 AM

export a new path

Code:

$ export PATH="your path"

, or add path to old $PATH

Code:

$ export PATH="your path:$PATH"

gnashley · 12-04-2006, 02:02 AM

Set the path to only what's in the file this way:
PATH=`cat path.txt`
This will place the path in file before your regular path:
PATH=`cat path.txt`:$PATH
This will append the path in file to your regular path
PATH=$PATH:`cat path.txt`
If needed:
export PATH

On another note, that's pretty crappy code in your signature. I couldn't get it to compile, so I rewrote it in assembler, but get errors like this:
Compiling failed, no gas found.

jstephens84 · 12-04-2006, 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gnashley

Set the path to only what's in the file this way:
PATH=`cat path.txt`
This will place the path in file before your regular path:
PATH=`cat path.txt`:$PATH
This will append the path in file to your regular path
PATH=$PATH:`cat path.txt`
If needed:
export PATH

On another note, that's pretty crappy code in your signature. I couldn't get it to compile, so I rewrote it in assembler, but get errors like this:
Compiling failed, no gas found.

Thanks that is what I was looking for. And the code it is a work in progress. That probably why the shitty ideas have been forming lately.