"Environment variables"

kjartani · 07-25-2007, 06:39 AM

Hello
Where to find the environment variables in Fedora
I assume theyre stored in some file and that there are some program to make them viewable and editable....

I need to check some paths......

Kjartan Iversen

pixellany · 07-25-2007, 06:58 AM

"env" does it on my system
You change them with simple assignment statements

Simon Bridge · 07-25-2007, 07:03 AM

To check your path you enter:

echo $PATH

To edit it you use the export command. i.e. to add a directory to your path:

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin"

... adds the directory ~/bin to your path.