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Old 07-11-2002, 04:44 AM   #1
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Talking Manipulating the PATH variable.


Running Redhat 7.3

I am trying to add /usr/OpenOffice.org1.0/ to all users paths. /etc/profile looks very odd How do i add it? I want it to work for all users so it needs to be done globally.
 
Old 07-11-2002, 05:01 AM   #2
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PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/openoffice.org

at the end.
 
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