How to export $PATH so it stays put?

Infernal211283 · 01-22-2006, 01:46 AM

Hi,

I use commands located in /sbin a lot therefore i need the $PATH to stay updated with this '/sbin' location so i update it with
'export PATH=$PATH:/sbin' the problem is that i have to do it at every new console which i find quite annoying, is there a command that can update the $PATH variable permanently or perhaps a boot script for it?

Thank you.

gilead · 01-22-2006, 02:09 AM

I'm assuming that your shell is bash - do you get '/bin/bash' when you type echo $SHELL? Do you have a file called .bash_profile in your home directory? Create or open it and add the line:

Code:

export PATH=$PATH:/sbin

I'm surprised you need to access /sbin as a normal user, they're system admin utilities on my box.

Infernal211283 · 01-22-2006, 02:14 AM

That's what i've been looking for, thanks a lot...

and btw, even if i went superuser i still needed to add ':/sbin'

jrdioko · 01-22-2006, 02:49 AM

As far as I know, things in /sbin should only need to be accessed by root, not your normal user. When you change to root, use "su -" instead of just "su" to add all of root's directories to the PATH.