This might sound strange but... $PATH

mago · 11-07-2005, 04:57 PM

Hello fellow linuxoers,

I wonder if this can be easily acomplish.

Sometimes I need to remove something that is declare in the $PATH but just for that session, but how can I acomplish that without having to declare a whole new path?

Is there a way to use export PATH with some option to remove something specific?

pritchardtom · 11-07-2005, 05:04 PM

I believe that as long as you do not explicilty set the path variable in the .bashrc file the export command will only last for the current session. Once you exit the shell and start it back up it will read the path variable in the .bashrc or what ever file it is stored in.

To be safe you could safe you current $PATH to another variable and then set it back at the end of the session, or simple copy the $PATH to a text file so if anything goes wrong, you still have the original.