im having troubles putting sed into my path...ive never done this before and so dont really know what im doing i installed a bootstrapped version of sed and am now told to

"Once you get a working version of sed, temporarily install /sed/sed somewhere in your path"
the the bootstrapped version is in /root/sed-4.0.4/sed/

makefile.am
makefile.in
compile.c
execute.c
fmt.c
regex.c
sed.c
sed.h

can anyone help me to add this to my path (i dont know which of these is the file that is needed to execute it so if someone could help with that at the same time it would be nice)

-thanks

To find out your current paths type:

$PATH

at a console. These are your current paths. I guess you would want to move sed into one of these paths.

$path returns nothign...
but how do i add it to the path? thats the part i dont know how to do, also which file there is the executable that the path needs to point to

I said $PATH not $path . Once you see the output of the command it will tell you what directories are in your path.

that should be echo $PATH
to add to PATH (e.g.) export PATH=$PATH:/xxx/bin
you need to put this in your $HOME/.bashrc-private if you want this PATH everytime you login

ok i think i got it now...thanks all