Setting temporary pathing in bash script.
 

I'm trying to get nethack to run. I got it built, but it's not finding the sysconf file, which is there. I can see it.

I'm thinking it's just making a generic call, but because the path to sysconf is not in $PATH, it's not finding it.

I only want the pathing for when I run the game. I don't want to make it permanent in my .profile.

Is this possible?

PATH is only used to find executables, not for config files. That should be something else.
can be used to specify PATH (or any other variable) only for a single command.

why are you compiling it?
which distro are you using?
on Ubuntu alone there's 4 different versions in the repos.

Slackware

Okay, I'll have to look at the code.

ADDENDUM: Please disregard. I must have been doing something wrong or a subsequent compile worked or something, because it suddenly started to see the file. All is well.