PATH variable file

pongsu · 09-25-2003, 04:24 AM

hi

can someone tell me about the file in the home directory that contains the PATH variable, what does it do, and how do we inspect its value

whansard · 09-25-2003, 04:44 AM

it can be in any file that is executed on startup of the shell
.bashrc
.bash_login
.bash_profile
/etc/profile

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yapp · 09-25-2003, 05:13 AM

echo $PATH

For global settings, you might want to check out /etc/profile.d/.

Adding new folders to your path is done with:
export PATH="$PATH:/some/other/path"